I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sept 2013
Interview
First one or two interviews are the screening interview question and then they take 4 interviews of one hr length. The final interview is taken by the hiring manager or some very experienced person. If all the other interviews went well, all you need to do in the final interview is 'dont do bad'. generally the first 2-3 interviews set the tone whether you are doing well or not. Questions asked were not too complicated but folks were experienced enough to judge your work and quality pretty quickly. Be genuine and make sense.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
plot the line given two points and a point method such that the next point is touching the previous (in other words, no gaps in the line)
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.
