I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2014
Interview
Meet with Microsoft at my University's career fair and gave them a copy of my resume. I also went to a few other events they held in the next few weeks. Eventually, they reached out to me to schedule a first round interview.
The interview was on campus at our career center and was bout 45 minutes in length. My interviewer asked behavioral questions for about 15 minutes and then it was 30 minutes of coding challenges.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about a very specific improvement I made to any of my projects. The interviewer wanted some quantitative answer, which was unexpected.
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.
