I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Calcuta) in Aug 2016
Interview
First there was a online round.It contains three data structures related questions
then there was group fly round.
then three more face to face interviews.
from online round around 21 people were selected.
then from group-fly 11 people were selected.
finally 1 student got the job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.segregate even and odd nodes of linked list
2.find the square root of a number without using sqrt().
3.rotate a matrix by 90 clockwise.
4.find intersection point of two linked lists.
5.reverse the words of string.
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.