I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Oct 2008
Interview
I had worked as SDE intern for 6 months. To get the internship, I had a written technical round and 2 rounds of interviews.
After the end of internship, I got what are known as Pre-Placement Interviews. There were a couple of them, 1st with a Lead and 2nd with a Director.
In the 1st interview, I was asked a Data Structures problem, 2 small coding tasks and an interesting puzzle.
In the 2nd interview, I was asked a coding problem based on Linked List (which I had done somewhere before) and a lot of HR/fit questions.
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.
