Microsoft Interview Report
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AnswersWhy Microsoft? Which is your technically most challenging project?
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 0of 0 votes
AnswersHow would you go about testing a pen? If you needed 10 weeks to test the pen comprehensively and you are 5 weeks into your work. Then they give another pen based on a new technology and ask you to test it along with the original pen within the remaining 5 weeks. What do you do?
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a) you shout at management saying that this is crazy
b) You work overtime to complete the work
c) you inform the management that the time is not sufficient
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing Behavioral - 4of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a canoe, what test cases would you write for it.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing - 0of 0 votes
AnswersTell me about yourself and briefly describe what is in your resume
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 0of 0 votes
AnswersREverse the words of a string.. Code it and write test cases.. Here many test cases failed ... Since I was able to point out myself what went wrong I think that covered up for the buggy code I wrote.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - -1of 0 votes
AnswersGiven a string as input , say " ababcdcec", the output should be the number of times the character that has repeated the maximum. In the example a occurs twice, b occurs twice, c occurs thrice, d and e once each.. Thus the function should return 3.
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Asked to write test cases for this.( wrote arnd 10 ) for which the interviewer said that the testcases are 80-90% compprehensive| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm - 0of 0 votes
AnswerYou are a consulting company, that had done good once upon a time and now is in a almost bankrupt situation.
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Then a big client comes and says that they wanted to code a distributed application using HTTP. You know that for the scenario the client is describing, SOAP would do a much better job. But the client is adamant at going with HTTP. What would you do?| Report Duplicate | Flag | PURGE
Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Behavioral - 0of 0 votes
AnswersYou have a coke machine that is spitting 2-3 coke cans a second. You have a requirement to test every coke can that comes out. What test cases will you automate?
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He made me think for 15 mins to get all possible wired things that you can test.. and also how you can test...
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Testing - 2of 0 votes
Answerscode a function that returns the nth fibnocci number... coded it the most efficient way by using 3 variable... Then the interviewer wrote the recursive form and asked me what are the pros and cons of your(iterative) approach and recursive approach.
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Microsoft Software Engineer in Test Algorithm