I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2025
Interview
The first-round interview was scheduled for 30 minutes but lasted about 45 minutes. It was a phone interview. The interviewer started with a few basic machine learning questions. After that, I was given an algorithm problem to answer verbally without coding. Then I was asked about challenges I faced in my past projects and finally to describe one recent research project that impressed me the most.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Can you explain the bias-variance tradeoff in machine learning?
Q: [Algorithm question] easy to medium level difficulty
Q: What challenges did you face in your projects?
Q: Can you describe a recent research project that you found memorable?
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Screening interview basic ml question variance bias, dropout, basic leetcode question around easy and medium. Basicly explain what you do and how to execute it. No need to write code. Just explain the idea. Detail about your project.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I had 3 interviews in 3 hours 45 minutes each, 2 interviews were ML interviews and one is SE. At each one there was first introduction about my projects and then some technical questions after that there was one HR question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the process to implement a model to detect if there was a person on an image that wears glasses, from the begging (data) to the end (metrics)