Microsoft Associate Consultant interview questions
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There were three rounds of Interview - Online Test, Technical Interview and Hiring Manager Interview
Online Test had questions on verbal, reasoning, logical and technical questions
Technical Interview was telephonic and there were wide ranging questions from C#, C and your respective area of work and other topics related to your work domain
Hiring Manager Interview had questions about the kind of work I am doing currently and what I wish to work on etc
I applied in-person. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Aug 2014
Interview
I got a call from Microsoft and the process took 3 days- interviewed at Microsoft in August 2014.
First there was a online test containing four sections(Aptitude+Reasoning+English+Technical) conducted by Cocubes.
At Microsoft Office :
On clearing online test they called for interview on Microsoft Office .
1 Written Objective Test(Aptitude+Reasoning) followed by 2 Technical 1 Managerial and 1 final HR interview
1.Technical F2F Round 1:Duration: 1 hour to 1 hr 30 mins
-First Started with my Project
-Asked architectural diagram and Entity Diagram
-Asked Questions on Entity Diagram
-Asked scenario wise questions to solve the problem in my project.
-After this asked reasoning type questions
-Then started Tradition interview
-Asked questions on OOPS and MVC and SQL Linq etc whatever you written in your resume.
Explain very clearly and in depth your past projects and your role.
2.Telephonic technical Round 2: Duration: 45 mins
-Asked about profession carreer and brief about project and some more general and technical questions.
3.AA(Managerial) Round :Duration: 15 mins
-Asked some general questions for checking your attitude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reasoning Type Questions :
1 Find out the missing no.
i.e. If the range is 5 and user enters only 4 nos ranging between no. 1 to 5
2. Find max and min no. from string of no.s
3. Find out the least repetitive occurrence of any specific character in a string of characters.
Technical Questions:
-Why delete can be rollback but truncate not?
-Why does C++ support multiple inheritance but C# does not?
-Where does object(containing int and string values) stores in the memory ?
-Why does 'select' comes in last in LINQ?
-Serialization
-Design patterns
-Where Sessionid stores?
-Cookieless Session
-AJAX call
-What are the ways to loading Partial view?
-How can be restrict a piece of code which will run only on Ajax call?
-Can a web service return data reader object and Why?
-URL Routing and URL Rewriting
-ASPX life Cycle
-On Which state we should change the attribute of any aspx control?
-Overriding and Shadowing
-Garbage Collector
-Strong name Assembly
-Difference between throw and throw(ex)
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderâbâd) in Aug 2014
Interview
Online Test conducted by Cocubes. Can be given from home.
At Microsoft Office :
1 Written Test followed by 2 Technical 1 Managerial(kind of role play and case study round) and 1 HR(kind of stress plus typical HR) interview
Technical rounds consist of 5 algorithms from DS and Algorithms(You can code in any language), approx 5-10 from OS, 2-5 que from DBMS, 5-10 From Networks and 2-5 from Testing.
Have a heavy breakfast before going to Microsoft office as it will be very long day there. Do not get irritated by long day as HR is the stress round in which people normally screw up because of high fatigue level.
Explain very clearly and in depth your past projects and your role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Be logical and clear. You have to be very very thorough in knowledge as frequently questions like explain some term to a layman can arise. Nothing is too difficult. Just good presence of mind and logical skills with least nervousness would help crack the interview.