I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2017
Interview
Phone interview. The interviewer asked two probability questions. The first one is very easy. The second one is listed below. Overall I felt good. But they decided not to proceed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Three friends in Seattle told you it's rainy. Each has a probability of 1/3 of lying. What's the probability of Seattle is rainy.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2017
Interview
First phone interview, which lasted for an hour. I was interviewed for a data scientist position which also had some engineering functions. It was a pretty new team. The interviewer was a data scientist II at Microsoft. They value both business sense and technical skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Can you explain the Naive Bayes fundamentals? How did you set the threshold?
2.Can you explain what MapReduce is and how it works?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
After an employee referral, I was flown to Redmond for on-site interviews. I had four 1:1 interviews back-to-back. The process felt very rushed and impersonal, and I don't feel like I got a good sense of what exactly I was interviewing for. Most interviewers asked me to discuss a project I had worked on, and then asked 1-2 technical questions. There were a couple of probability questions and a couple of coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe one data science project that you've worked on.