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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Lagos, Nigeria

August 21, 2023

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interviewer was friendly. The interview was conducted on Microsoft Teams during the day.

Unfortunately, I experienced very bad network issues that day, which ultimately cost me the internship.

Overall, the interview was not difficult. Common interview questions were asked.

Questions

What is recursion, also object-oriented programming.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer (Internship) role in Lagos, Nigeria.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Lagos, Nigeria is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Lagos, Nigeria.

Microsoft Work Experiences

Good Practical Work

Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

October 20, 2022

Pros: 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.

Good Practical Work

Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

October 20, 2022

Pros: 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.

Good Learning, Needed Support

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

August 27, 2020

Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity

Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

Good Learning, Needed Support

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

August 27, 2020

Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity

Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

Great Pay, Challenging Work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Microsoft provides excellent salaries and benefits, exciting work, and the chance to collaborate with very talented people. On the downside, employees say work-life balance isn't great, and there's a lot of office politics.

Cons: Complex business with complex processes. Lack of communication/integration among different business units.

Great Pay, Challenging Work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Microsoft provides excellent salaries and benefits, exciting work, and the chance to collaborate with very talented people. On the downside, employees say work-life balance isn't great, and there's a lot of office politics.

Cons: Complex business with complex processes. Lack of communication/integration among different business units.

Good Practical Work

Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee

Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia

October 20, 2022

Pros: 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.

5.0
Good Practical Work
Software Engineer (Internship) • Former Employee
Belgrade, Central Serbia, Serbia
October 20, 2022
Pros: 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.

Good Learning, Needed Support

Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

August 27, 2020

Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity

Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

4.0
Good Learning, Needed Support
Software Engineer (Internship) • Current Employee
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
August 27, 2020
Pros: Good salary and actual learning opportunity
Cons: Lack of documentation and need for more support.

Great Pay, Challenging Work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: Microsoft provides excellent salaries and benefits, exciting work, and the chance to collaborate with very talented people. On the downside, employees say work-life balance isn't great, and there's a lot of office politics.

Cons: Complex business with complex processes. Lack of communication/integration among different business units.

4.0
Great Pay, Challenging Work
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Lagos, Nigeria
April 17, 2024
Pros: Microsoft provides excellent salaries and benefits, exciting work, and the chance to collaborate with very talented people. On the downside, employees say work-life balance isn't great, and there's a lot of office politics.
Cons: Complex business with complex processes. Lack of communication/integration among different business units.

Microsoft Interview Questions

Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

You're given a directed graph. Determine the minimum number of edges you need to reverse so that every node becomes reachable from node 0.

GraphsDynamic Programming

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Valid Word

Determine if a given word is considered valid based on a specific set of rules or constraints. The goal is to check if the input string adheres to the specified validation criteria.

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