I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Beijing, Beijing)
Interview
Phone interview, general coding questions plus research area questions. My area is NLP thus there is sth related to Transformers and other kinds of pre-trained language models. The coding question is How to revert a linked list
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Jan 2025
Interview
CV / Background Questions
Education & Training
“Can you walk us through your educational background?”
“Why did you choose Informatics / HCI for your PhD?”
“What motivated your undergraduate research on Instagram poets?”
Research Focus / Publications
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell us how you could do discourse analyses?
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Jan 2023
Interview
Tough, with a lot of questions that I didn't want to consider due to the fact that they were taking a lot of time to get the thought out even though the question was intelligent.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you do?
Have you read Arthur Conan Doyle?
What's your least favorite part about the color Blue?
Are you taller than a Marmot?
