Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Belgrade, Serbia
Process
I applied online. The process took 3 months.
This is for the role in Belgrade, which may differ elsewhere. Applying to the role is easy, just filling in a short form and sending in a CV. After that selection, which took around 2 months, you get to do 2 DSA tasks from home on HackerRank, probably LeetCode mediums? If you are selected from there, the next step is to have 3 interviews, each in the same format. It is 45 minutes of talking to a SWE from the dedicated team, firstly talking about your CV and interests, some personal questions, and then a DSA. In my case, I got one easy, one hard, and one easy/medium.
Questions
The questions included an in-place reverse of a singly linked list, the classic LeetCode Trapping Rain Water problem, and something non-standard, which was getting a stream of data and using a deque to effectively query the last $k$ elements.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer (Internship) role in Belgrade, Central Serbia.
Success Rate
Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Belgrade, Central Serbia is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Belgrade, Central Serbia.
Microsoft Work Experiences
- 5.0Good Practical WorkSoftware Engineer (Internship) • Former EmployeeBelgrade, Central Serbia, SerbiaOctober 20, 2022Pros: Working environment is perfect. People are friendly and ready to talk about work and hobbies in their free time. I have learned a lot during the internship, from practical coding skills to the theoretical background of distributed systems.Cons: No cons for me at this internship.
- 4.0Good Learning, Needed SupportSoftware Engineer (Internship) • Current EmployeeCairo, Cairo Governorate, EgyptAugust 27, 2020Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunityCons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.
- 3.02 years in Azure Data team at MDCS BelgradeSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeBelgrade, Central Serbia, SerbiaJune 7, 2021Pros: Quality of people is above everything else. The people working there are far above average in terms of skill. Everybody who works there for a longer period of time is there because they love and are seriously invested in some part of software engineering. If you are in it just for the money, you won't endure for long. Also, contrary to things I have heard before joining, people are more than willing to help even if they are extremely overwhelmed with work. That is something I must applaud. Opportunity to work on truly uniquely large projects. I worked in the SQL team, developing a new service within Azure Data, and I must say the experience is quite something. You get to work with extremely big clients, educational systems of entire countries, etc.Cons: Knowledge. Firstly, it is mostly internal. While that is the case with most large companies, it must be mentioned. Secondly, internal documentation is extremely bad, virtually non-existent. Usually, it boils down to going through 20-year-old code, files of 10k lines or more, in order to get how things work. It is extremely tiresome. Tooling. Amount of time wasted on bugs with tools, simulators, and authentication is amazing. And unfortunately, even though everybody knows about it, it is expected that time you spend on those kinds of problems isn't included in regular working hours.
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