Interview Questions and Answers

These software and hardware interview questions have been collected from various sources from interviews at various companies (Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Google, Intel, HP, etc.). This site started out from collecting the few interview questions from all of our friends who went and interviewed at Microsoft in grad school and people who mailed in their questions. Do send us your solutions or discuss in the forum, but the intent of this page is to kindle enough interest in you to try similar logic and programming questions.

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About This Site

Purpose

This is a community driven and volunteer maintained site. If this helps you out in anyway in your job search or in interviewing candidates do drop us a line and let us know at webmaster ATA softwareinterview DOOT com.

We have spent some time in collecting with the intention of their value as a practice session. They are not meant to be exact questions that you need to know and answer in an interview. We are not responsible for either your success or failure in any interview. That is all you! :)

These interview questions are supposed to make you think! Discuss with your friends, colleagues, professors for answers (get your tuition money's worth). Print them out and try them on your flight to the interview in case you are pressed for time. One of the strangest phone calls I remember is from a girl, staying up in a Microsoft provided hotel room in Redmond the night before the interview, asking me about the solution for one of the questions from this site. I hope the rest of you are saner (or do not have my phone number).

Contributing

Please feel free to add your questions and answers to the database. Please make sure that you are not adding any copyrighted material to the list. If you notice any copyrighted or copylefted material please inform the webmaster AT this domain and it will be removed as soon as we can grep a volunteer.

When adding new questions, company names and categories is optional but really helps the chracterization of the questions and searching so do please enter at least the categories as keywords.

If you have interesting experiences or information to contribute feel free to use the Discussion Forum.

Disclaimer

These sites or the operators are not affiliated with any specific company mentioned in any of the pages or questions and answers or any thread in the discussion forum. Also, specifically (but not limited to) this site is in no way connected with Microsoft Corporation, its affiliates, friends or haters.

Microsoft or any other corporation mentioned on this site does not hold any patents and nor have they invented most of the questions. Most of them come from mathematics and physics books, party puzzles, programming lore and standard textbooks. We know many companies ask similar questions, though Microsoft might have made the practice more common (especially with the manhole cover type of questions).

Trivia

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