I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2014
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter over the summer and I gave them my resume. Didn't hear back until around Novemberish where I was told I would be interviewing for a Software Developer job.
Had my phone interview the following week, nothing crazy, no technical questions. Just a resume review and a few behavioral questions relating to both how I handle team situations as well as my thought process when coding. Was contacted a week after saying they would like to fly me in for an onsite interview.
The trip was great. Everything was paid for including hotel, food, transportation. I didn't spend a dime in my time at Redmond.
The interview process was stressful but not ridiculous. The recruiters did their best to ease our stress and make us enjoy our time at Microsoft. I had four interviews with 15 minute breaks in between. The interviewers were nice and seemed like they really were invested in us. The technical questions were fairly challenging but not so crazy that I wasn't able to come up with a solution in a reasonable amount of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a sorted array, write a function that will create a binary search tree from the array.
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I apply online got interview a couple months later. technical and behavioral interview and technical was a leetcode easy with some behavioral and behavioral was typical interview questions nothing on my resume
in oa had a very strage question, only solved in 1 language and unclear instructions, even if you chose a different language, if you got this question it has oto be in what they chose.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
in oa had a very strage question, only solved in 1 language and unclear instructions, even if you chose a different language, if you got this question it has oto be in what they chose.
