Microsoft Intern Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details It was a campus interview. It was a 30 min interview. The interviewer asked questions on previous projects for the first 15 mins and then asked a programming question

Interview Details Emailed a recruiter about The Foundry, one of Microsoft's summer internship programs. Received an email back asking to set up a phone interview that very day.

The phone interview was nothing heavy, just general questions about my history as an undergraduate student, favorite project, etc.

I was invited for an on-site, along with a group of maybe 10 others that morning. Very nice people. There was a generous breakfast for all of us. Met with 4 engineers for about an hour each. Three were technical. I had to do things like demonstrate websites that I thought had a nice UI, talk about the inner workings (hardware and software) of a mobile device (in a general sense), and some whiteboard coding.

I was told immediately after the process ended that I was not chosen. They sat us in a room and called us out one by one to break the news. We weren't aware at the moment, but those that remained in the room were hired.

Interview Details On campus interviews which were conducted for two days. The worst part in the process was that there was just one interviewer and he asked the same question to all the students for 2 days. Clearly students interviewed on the second day had an upper hand.

Interview Details I submit my resume on a info session, then got an on-campus interview a month later. I didn't prepare for it. The interview divided into three part, behavioral questions, then technical questions including: test cases, design a product, algorithm, system (memory); then Q&A.

Interview Details - Step 0: Applied through Microsoft Careers Website and University Recruiter (e-mail).

- Step 1: Phone interview. A lot of behavioral questions and some technical ones like:
     + Why did you want to study in that university?
     + What role do you like more and why?
     + Main differences between Java and C++.

- Step 2: On-site interview. A lot of questions regarding testing:
     + Code example already done: analyse it out loud.
     + Algorithm: count first non-repeated characters of a string.
     + Algorithm: binary search

- Recommendations:
      + Read the book 'How Would You Move Mount Fuji'.
      + Read the book 'How We Test Software At Microsoft"
      + Read the book 'Programming Interviews Exposed'
      + Practice, practice, practice
      + Demonstrate interest about Microsoft Corporation
      + Be yourself!

Interview Details Met with a recruiter on campus. After two weeks, I got an invitation for an interview. The interviewer asked mostly typical behavioural questions (Why Microsoft? How would you test a certain piece of code?). I had only one programming question.

Interview Details Submitted application through college, and e-mailed back and forth with recruiter. There are multiple recruiters in charge of handling each person, which sometimes could be inefficient. There was a 20-minute interview on campus. The interviewer was really personable and friendly. He gave a little bit of guidance through the problems, but it is best to go faster so he does not need to speed you along.

Interview Details Sent in a cover letter to express interest, as well as my resume.

This was followed by a 1 to 1 interview in person by my manager

Negotiation Details – No negotiation as I was applying for an internship position with fixed benefits

Interview Details Applied through a job fair and got an email from Microsoft the next week. Had my first interview through the phone and was asked all design related questions: test a pen, design an alarm clock for a visually-impaired person, etc. Received an email the next day informing me that I had made it to the next round.

Interviewed at Microsoft's Boston location. One of the interviewers was indisposed, so we only had three interviews instead of the intended four. They asked one technical question per round which didn't take up all the time, and we also discussed my resume and previous experience.

The process took the entire morning, after which they fed us lunch and told us the results. This gave us the entire afternoon to explore the city.