Upcoming test and interview for Microsoft and Amazon
@anonymous : hey thanks for sharing it....
i would also like to know if they had any written test at you campus for both the companies.... also what was the test pattern and how would you rate the difficulty level....
I didn't have any written test. Doesn't mean you won't. Written tests are more common in some areas than others.
What are you asking about when you mention "test pattern"? I did mention the topics covered.
I would rate the difficulty of the Microsoft on-campus as easy and the in-person as between moderate and hard.
I would have rated my Amazon experiences as easy, though I might have gotten lucky.
@anonymous : am sure that test would be there ..... about the test pattern I wanted to know type of questions :- like last year in our campus there was a coding ques , a design ques and one in which we had to write test cases and another half where there was MCQs....
I think people can have different experiences with something so specific as the order of questions. You can be assured that at least by the time you get to the interviews on the company's campus you'll have to face all the different types of questions.
In my on-university-campus interview w/ Microsoft, I had to talk about my coding experience and then was given one coding question where I also had to analyze big-O complexity of my solution.
@student: in reply to: "i would also like to know if they had any written test at you campus for both the companies.... also what was the test pattern and how would you rate the difficulty level...."
I am not sure for freshers/campus recruitment, but I think (also it would be logical to guess) there is written test for them. Coz the same companies have written test for experienced people, let alone be freshers/campus recruit.
on the difficulty part, I am sure its above the industry standard. Prepare strong on algo/DS and OS concepts.
hey thanks for posting... have prepared DS and algo and am working on OS right now.....
The campus interview I had was just a brief session which tested basic reasoning skills about code and basic coding. Then I had the interview on Microsoft's campus which covered data structures, coding, algorithms, C, multithreading, debugging, basic computer architecture, and possibly more.
- Anonymous July 10, 2012Amazon was actually a lot easier, but that may have been (and probably was) luck.