I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2014
Interview
The process was extremely well organized, requiring minimal effort for the interviewee. Flights were arranged as well as land travel to get to the hotel and interview location in Washington. For the actual interviews, four one-on-one interviews were held very early in the morning, since they needed to fit in two sessions in one day. My session went from 8am to 12pm, while the second session went from 1pm to 5pm. Each interview was a pretty standard technical interview that lasted 50 minutes. Questions were very technical and heavy on algorithms, but nothing out of the ordinary for software engineering interviews. The recruiters were very consistent in making you feel comfortable and answering any questions in between the interviews. They were clear and accurate about when results would be given for how the interviews went, which in my case was just two days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a number range, create a function that takes the total count of numbers whose individual digits add up to a second number provided as a parameter to the function.
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.
