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      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      14 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Lucknow
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lucknow) in Jan 2026

      Interview

      The OA was simple. There were two interview rounds. The interview focused on problem solving, logical puzzles, and some system design concepts like caching and database optimization.The HR round had one dsa , one behavourial and one os based question. The interviewers were friendly and the difficulty level was moderate.

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      1. Find pairs with minimum absolute difference in an array (Closest latency spikes).
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      2. 3 switches and 3 bulbs puzzle (enter the room only once).
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      3. 100 doors puzzle (doors toggled in multiple passes).
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      4. How to avoid serving stale data when using caching and data updates every 5 minutes.
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      5. A database call takes 500 ms. How would you optimize it?
      1 Answer

      Question 6

      HR ROUND Strengths and Weaknesses Cooredinates of two rectangles are given how would you find if they intersect or not how to make your system crash using code.
      Answer question

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      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      1 Jun 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft

      Interview

      The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.
      Answer question

      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      30 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Cairo, Cairo Governorate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Cairo, Cairo Governorate)

      Interview

      One HR interview, then two problem-solving interviews (beginer level) on HackerRank. You can choose the best programming language for you to use in solving problems. You should think out loud to enable your interviewer to understand how you would think to solve the problem.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Find the lowest difference between two numbers in a list
      Answer question

      Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

      23 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

      Interview

      hr reached to me on linkedIn and sent me Take-home assignment hosted on HackerRank. I had about 10 days to complete. The test included 1 medium/easy question and one hard question with style of LeetCode 3162 and 2080 (Range Frequency Queries)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      hard question with style of LeetCode 3162 and 2080 (Range Frequency Queries)
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