The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2009
Interview
I applied online through the Microsoft website and was contacted a few days later through email by a HR company. This email had arranged several campus interview dates and asked me to list the times I was available. At the interview I met with a Manager of a Software Development Engineer in Test. He took casual to an extreme, and was noticeably tired and uninterested. He had been interviewing candidates all day. He asked two logic based questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Imagine you're a door company, and the company that sells you your door handles decides to raise the price. You now want to make your own handles and enter the door handle market. How would you design your door handle
You are given two numbers M and N, ex. 10 and 15, and array with N-M numbers. In that array are numbers between M and N. Ex( 11,12,13,11,14). The numbers are not ordered, and can be repeated. How do you find the number(s) which is not listed in the array.
It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of meeting time intervals, determine if a person could attend all meetings.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024
Interview
I was invited to a technical interview with Microsoft. The interviewer started with a general question: “What happens when you type google.com into your browser?” They asked a few follow-up questions related to that.
After that, they gave me a LeetCode algorithmic question, which was at a hard level. The problem was “Integer to English Words.”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What happens when you type google.com into your browser?
2. “Integer to English Words” – LeetCode algorithmic question
Three tech interviews + one hiring manager VO, most of questions are medium to hard leetcode questions. Ask some questions about techniques you written on the resume. But I think they care more about the match of the research and the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
