I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Orlando, FL) in Sep 2016
Interview
On campus interview, introduced projects on my resume, then go directly to coding problems.
The first problem is best time to by and sell stock. After a few minutes, I talk about my solution. I was not required to writing the code and directly goes to the second problem. After i finished my code, the interview think there is an easy way to solve the problem. But in the middle of introducing his idea, he admits mine was right.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Best time to buy and sell stocks. 2. find the biggest island in a 2D matrix.
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.
