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      Software Development Engineer Intern Interview

      26 Sept 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      Email from an on-campus recruiter gauging interest led to a phone screen interview. From there I was invited to an on-site interview in Seattle. There I had four ~45 min interviews. Each one started with some basic questions about my resume, then moved into 1-2 technical questions.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Make a program that writes a Binary Search Tree to a file. Now create a program that reads those files and recreates a Binary Search Tree.
      5 Answers

      Question 2

      How would you sort an array if you had infinite RAM? Infinite memory?
      3 Answers

      Question 3

      Create a Priority Queue with all methods.
      2 Answers

      Question 4

      A basic string manipulation question (unfortunately I don't remember the details as it was my first interview of the day)
      Answer question
      8