This was really a painful period but I have to say it was a great experience.
The first step is the phone interview which is like an initial screening for candidates before the real face-to-face interview.
Below are some of the questions I got there:
- How many lines of code you wrote in the past year?
- Why do you want to join Microsoft?
- What's your favorite MS product? how can you improve it?
- How do you update yourself?
- What is the last topic you read about or taught yourself that was technical but not related to your work/study?
- What is your strongest programming language?
- What are your strongest Computer Science areas?
- How does the CLR handle memory management?
- What are Namespaces?
- How are errors handled in .NET?
- What is "foreach"?
- What is the "friend" keyword in C++?
- Define a pointer.
- Define a function that takes a variable by reference.
- What are virtual functions? How does the compiler handle them?
- What is a "critical section"?
- Test a stack.
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RiddleTwo weeks later the
FrontBridge team came to dubai and I went to the real interview. 5 interviewers, 45 minutes each and 15 minutes break. You only get to the forth and fifth interviews if they are satisifed with your performance in the first three. The most interesting interview was with the Program Manager,
James Hamilton, an absolute genius.
Testing questions:
- How do you go about UI Testing?
- Test a function that takes an integer and a string of multiple words and rotates the words of the string by the specified number.
The code and algorithms questions I got are posted
hereAnd no, I didn't get the job :-)
