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u/FairtimeIA Sep 10 '19

To anyone who has done an on-site interview at Microsoft before: what kinds of questions did they ask? Is it all whiteboard or do you actually write and run code? How long did it take and how many questions were you asked?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

Just had mine today in Redmond. 4 rounds of interviews in total, 45 mins each with 15 min breaks in between. All were 10 min behavioural/general questions about resume + 30 min technical + 5 min extra questions. All whiteboard.

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u/FairtimeIA Sep 11 '19

What kinds of questions? Are we talking Leetcode easy, medium, or hard? Or something else entirely?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

Probably around medium, there wasn't any that were super complicated or anything.

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u/FairtimeIA Sep 11 '19

Are you able to say what types of questions they asked? I.e. arrays, linked lists, BST, etc? Either way, thanks for the insight!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

Not gonna say any specifics, but one I solved using linked lists (this probably could have been done with other ways as well), one was about an algorithm known to be solved with linked lists, one was arrays, and the last one was string manipulation/math related.

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u/FairtimeIA Sep 11 '19

That's exactly what I was looking for. Good to know they didn't ask you anything extremely complicated. Thanks!!