I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2013
Interview
Dropped my resume at school career fair. They had some engineers on campus to interview students. Got an email a week later for on-campus interview. Two rounds of interviews, with two interviews in the second round. After that, they flew me to Seattle for the on-site interviews. I got two on-site with two different teams, the interviewers were the hiring managers so they were able to give hiring decisions in the same day. After the interviews, they took us for a campus tour then lunch and then they told us the result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A board game was introduced, how to design an algorithm to come up with a valid starting point for the game
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.
