I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Submitted my resume both online and to the college recruiter, and had an initial on-campus interview one month later. The interview is only 30 minutes long. The interviewer first asked about my resume and we had time for only one technical question. I gave a search algorithm and he asked me to improve the runtime. Finally he let me ask him questions about the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a method that takes in a string of letters and returns if it is a valid word, how do you solve the problem of word segmentation? In other words, given a string of letters (a-z only) and return a valid break down of the string into an array of words. There are be multiple different valid answers, and your solution need only return one of them.
Example: segment("hellohowareyou") returns ["hello", "how", "are", "you]
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.
