After applying through my college recruiter, I got a first-round phone interview. It lasted about 45 minutes and first involved a few behavioral questions (e.g., Why do you want to work at Microsoft? What kind of coding are you doing outside of school?). After that, I was bombarded by a plethora of technical questions. Here are a few of them:

What are the differences between Java and C? Why would someone use Java over C/C++ and vice-versa? What's inheritance? What's a virtual function? What's the JVM? What's a disadvantage of the JVM? What's the difference between an array and a linked list?

After this, I was asked one coding question: Reverse a singly linked list with and without using an auxiliary data structure.

Reverse a singly linked list with and without using an auxiliary data structure.