Microsoft Summer Internship Interview 2011

Microsoft came to our campus to select Summer interns for 2011. Internship process was like this.

There was one written round, where they selected 36 students from 150+ students. Written round was normal, questions were solvable.

Then there were two rounds of individual interview. Questions asked were easy, at-least for me as i code regularly ;)

During 1st interview they asked me two questions. I solved both of them. I was solving one of the problem in a bad manner, so he gave me a hint. I picked that and re-answered what he wanted to listen. After 1st round, from 36 they selected around 12 students for 2nd round.

Second interview was all good. I learned a lot from 2nd interview. The women who took my interview was very cool and explained things perfectly. After 2nd round, they selected 6 students.

Final interview was at MS-IDC, Hyderabad. They asked 8 questions in this round. I answered 7 of them correctly, all were very easy. Had no idea of the eighth one. I was not selected in the final round. Out of 6, they took 3 interns.

Have a good CGPA(Cumulative Grade Point Average), there is lot of weightage for it in Microsoft internship interview process.

Few tips :

• Brush up the basics of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Have a good CGPA.

All in all, a good learning experience and will come back strong next year.

Cheers !!!!