I applied through university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2011
Interview
Started from school career fair, I was selected to attend an on campus interview. 2 weeks later, I received an email saying that they would move me to Seattle for an onsite interview.
On-site interview took a day long with 4 interviews, starting at 9:00 and ending at 1:00pm. After lunch, I was informed that I was offered an SDE intern position.
Overall, the questions were not so hard. However, you should show how would you attack the problem. Interviewers knew that questions were posted online and they not only expect you a correct answer, but also your thoughts/understandings.
Be prepared with algorithms and data structures.
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Application
I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
1 Phone Round that was 30 mins where I was asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions.
2 back to back 45 minute interviews each with 1 coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the phone interview, they asked me what technologies about Microsoft was exciting.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
One 30 min call with behavioral and simple coding question. Second round involves two 45-60 min coding/behavioral interviews, with a 10-15 min break between the two depending on how fast you finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Parsing code into a text document
2. Word search in a 2D array of words given a list of words.
1 Online Test
3 Technical Coding Interviews
They also asked about company culture fit questions and had a techno-hr round as the 3rd interview
The online test was fairly simple and heavily proctored and the company focuses on resume too
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Structures and Algorithms and also about OS and OOPs