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.
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Question 1
Given a list of meeting time intervals, determine if a person could attend all meetings.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I applied for Microsoft through a university job fair and received an email about scheduling an interview. I went to an on-campus interview with a Microsoft employee, who was not human resources but was a software engineer and tested me out on minor programming tasks and asked me questions about my experience. There weren't any trick questions and the interview was very conversational and not as intimidating as others.
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Question 1
The most difficult question was simply: name an issue and how you resolved it. I was prepared for any programming question they could throw at me, but this one was more difficult. I was fortunate to have a lot of experience developing software in a team environment so I was able to answer this one pretty easily.
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.
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Question 1
Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
