SWE Intern at Microsoft

How it went

What they would tell you

How to prepare

Their background

Round by round

1. 1

   Online Assessment60 min

   The process began with a resume screening, where my profile was shortlisted based on my projects, academic background, and my technical experience After clearing this stage, I was invited to attempt the online assessment, which consisted of two coding problems of easy to medium & medium to hard difficulty, pass all test cases for both problems.

2. 2

   Coding Interview60 min

   Interviewer gave me two data structures and algorithms Binary Tree Upside Down-** **I started by explaining the intuition, then discussed both recursive and iterative approaches Next, we discussed Reachable Nodes With Restrictions, which I solved using BFS traversal

   • Binary Tree Upside Down
   • Reachable Nodes Before Destruction
3. 3

   HM Round40 min

   We began with some casual conversation around my projects, the technologies I have worked with, and a few behavioral questions In the technical part, I was asked the Pancake Sorting problem, coded the solution live, and managed to pass all test cases successfully

What came up