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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience

November 14, 2017
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

On-campus interview.

The interviewer was friendly and approachable. The interview lasted about 10 minutes, covering general experience, the position applied for, and the resume.

Following this, there was a 13-15 minute coding exercise on the whiteboard, focusing on data structures and algorithms.

Overall, it was a moderately difficult interview, and the interviewer provided guidance during the process.

Questions

Questions about experience and a coding question on traversing a binary tree.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 383 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.

Success Rate

37%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive70%
Neutral24%
Negative6%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.

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