I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2018
Interview
I contacted a recruiter, applied online, then was contacted to schedule a phone interview. They asked questions about my work experience and personal projects such as "What algorithms and data structures did you use in this project and why?" and "What was the biggest challenge for that project and how did you overcome it?". Then they asked various questions to see how you think like, "How would you explain recursion to a child?". A few weeks after this I was contacted by the recruiter saying that they liked me and wanted to move on to an in-person, on-site interview, but there weren't enough available interview slots. So, they put me on a wait list essentially.
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There was no one question that was most difficult, but the interviewer clearly had a set list of questions to ask and some of them really didn't apply to my personal projects or work experience so I couldn't properly answer them.
A leetcode style test with three problems, then three interviews with different managers ( for each it was a coding problem and behavioral questions). Each interview was 1 hour long
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How do I react and handle a conflict situation at work
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
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implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
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I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.