I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (New Delhi) in Aug 2017
Interview
It was a multi-round process.
Following were the rounds:
1. A written MCQ test on a platform, had some reasoning questions and some basic input-output questions
2. Coding round, a limited time coding contest, where we were supposed to solve questions and submit on an online judge. There were two problems and the overall time given to solve both of them was 30 mins.
3. Interview round 1, I was mostly asked about my profile and why I wanted to join Microsoft. One of my projects was also discussed. Then there was a coding question.
4. Interview round 2, I was asked a coding question. However, I just wrote some pseudo-code and the interviewer was happy with that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions was about in place string compression. For example, given a string (or an array of characters) like 'abaabbbccc', how to compress it to a string 'a1b1a2b3c3' where the number written after the character indicates how many times the character occurred. Only a constant amount of extra space is allowed, the contents of the original array/string can be overwritten.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
I interviewed at Microsoft (Cairo, Cairo Governorate)
Interview
One HR interview, then two problem-solving interviews (beginer level) on HackerRank. You can choose the best programming language for you to use in solving problems. You should think out loud to enable your interviewer to understand how you would think to solve the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest difference between two numbers in a list
