I applied through university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I applied through an on-campus event at my university and had an on-campus interview a few days after. The interviewer on campus asked me about my projects on my resume and asked a fairly simple algorithm question.
I received an email a week later inviting me for an onsite interview. Because of the sheer number of candidates being interviewed, however, it took a few months to actually schedule the on-site interview.
The on-site interview consisted of an initial interview with a recruiter and then 5 rounds with engineers, including a lunch interview. The interviewers asked me a wide variety of questions related to strings and arrays, and sometimes design questions.
The interviewers were friendly for the most part. I got the no offer response from the recruiter a few days later, unfortunately.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given a list of numbers, sort them and remove the duplicate numbers.
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.
