I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2010
Interview
I was first contacted by a recruiter who scheduled me for a phone interview and online skills assessment. The phone interview took 20 minutes and I was called back within a few hours where they informed me that they'd like to fly me down to headquarters for a day of interviewing. I was then flown down 3 weeks later where I spent the weekend in Redmond, WA on an all expenses paid trip courtesy of Microsoft. My day of interviews consisted of 4 1:1 interviews with employees within a specific team. I was then informed about a week later that they'd like to extend me an offer which I gladly accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of size N, filled with unique integers between 0 and N, how would you determine which integer was missing from the array. An initially simple question that was made increasingly harder after each correct answer to incorporate such things as memory/processor limitations, etc.
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.
