I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2015
Interview
It was a weekend drive. I was constantly getting calls to interview for Hyderabad location. As I wanted to stay in Bangalore, I was ignoring those calls. Then recruiter called me to attend it on a Saturday. More than 50 candidates turned up for the interview.
Round 1: He asked qns on array problems, and then he asked about how would you go about it while using C++, simple problems only - like binary search etc. I was confident and answered all qns and thought I would clear round 1. He then told to wait outside and HR will tell feedback. HR called me and told I can leave for the day. I did not like it when I was not given any feedback at all about what I missed for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Qns like in an array, how will you find coprime numbers, how will u use binary search, etc
1 Technical Screen, Leetcode Hard question about Graphs. Interview loop over two days, 4 rounds. 3 rounds had Leetcode Medium/Hard along with System Design questions and behavioral. Manger round was mostly behavioral along with a design question. DSA went well but the design questions were not upto the mark.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Australind) in Apr 2024
Interview
online coding，regrex expression，computer network。some system design。focus on bug free and comnunication skill. very tough question，corner case should be considered. good interviewer they are kind and give me a lot of hint
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
The process was very simple. Recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. Finished the online coding assessment.
From there a Microsoft Hiring Event day was scheduled.
Interview was pretty simple, Straight up leetcode. didn't even change the examples.
1st interview was medium leetcode. When I solved it in 15 mins, 2nd question was asked, After that a behavioral. This interview was finished in under 40 minutes
2nd interviewer asked a very common leetcode question. He asked me if I saw that question on leetcode. when I solved that he asked me to optimize it which I did. And then a behavioral.
3rd interview was OOD after a behavioral question. The interviewer did not ask any follow up questions. This interview was finished in under 40 minutes.
4th interview was a Tree based question which was also solved in the most optimal way. Interviewer mentioned that he has very less experience in java and couldn't understand some of the code. No follow up questions. there was another behavioral question. This interview was also done in 40 minutes.
When i checked with recruiter I was told that I was rejected. I was very confident about this interview. I still don't understand why I was rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic leetcode questions. All of them were from Explore section of Microsoft.
