I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Feb 2010
Interview
After A sent the resume someone from HR department contacted me by email. They send you a link to 2 problems, whenever you click on the link a timer is being launched on their side and they expect you to send the solutions in 2 hours.
After this step there was a technical phone interview which lasted about 1 hour, very technical. c++, algorithms and design.
Then they've scheduled a series of phone/skype/webcam interviews. I had 3 such interviews during one day, all were very technical, they ask you to write code and send it by skype or email. Again c++, algorithms and designing distributed fault tolerant systems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
design a large scale distributed and fault tolerant client-server system
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.
