Skip to contentSkip to footer

Software Development Interview Questions

Salaries
Interviews

36,991 software development interview questions shared by candidates

1. Given a non-negative integer array that is then shuffled and 1 element is removed, find which element was removed. 2. Assume you are designing/writing code for some small business software how would you go about creating a clean, extensible method for calculating sales tax that can be extended easily to work in different parts of the world. 3. (Two separate questions) 3a. Given an integer array, remove the duplicate values and return an integer array 3b. Test a dice role generator method 4. Design a system for tracking employee applicants through the interview process
avatar

Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Dec 13, 2013

1. Given a non-negative integer array that is then shuffled and 1 element is removed, find which element was removed. 2. Assume you are designing/writing code for some small business software how would you go about creating a clean, extensible method for calculating sales tax that can be extended easily to work in different parts of the world. 3. (Two separate questions) 3a. Given an integer array, remove the duplicate values and return an integer array 3b. Test a dice role generator method 4. Design a system for tracking employee applicants through the interview process

"You have billions of strings sorted in an array. You don't have any access to it. You just have a method that returns the string pertaining to a index. Use only that method to find the location of a given string" I started out at 0(n^2) and kept on improving to o(logn)
avatar

Software Development Engineer - IT

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Dec 10, 2013

"You have billions of strings sorted in an array. You don't have any access to it. You just have a method that returns the string pertaining to a index. Use only that method to find the location of a given string" I started out at 0(n^2) and kept on improving to o(logn)

Implement a Find-Replace function given a string of text, search string, and replace string. Also a seemingly simple question became very difficult and complex when looked at through the eyes of a tester. A question involved writting a function to classify a triangle given its side lengths.
avatar

Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) Intern

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Mar 7, 2014

Implement a Find-Replace function given a string of text, search string, and replace string. Also a seemingly simple question became very difficult and complex when looked at through the eyes of a tester. A question involved writting a function to classify a triangle given its side lengths.

Viewing 691 - 700 interview questions

Glassdoor has 36,991 interview questions and reports from Software development interviews. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job.