Microsoft Software Development Engineer I interview questions
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Software Development Engineer I applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer I roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 947 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 30 days.
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It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.
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Given a list of meeting time intervals, determine if a person could attend all meetings.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024
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I was invited to a technical interview with Microsoft. The interviewer started with a general question: “What happens when you type google.com into your browser?” They asked a few follow-up questions related to that.
After that, they gave me a LeetCode algorithmic question, which was at a hard level. The problem was “Integer to English Words.”
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1. What happens when you type google.com into your browser?
2. “Integer to English Words” – LeetCode algorithmic question
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Nov 2023
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Easy interview process. Just standard leetcode questions. Practice standard questions and you are good to go. Easy interview process. Just standard leetcode questions. Practice standard questions and you are good to go.
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Trapping Rainwater standard problem from leetcode.