I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2011
Interview
Got an interview thru a referral.
20-30 mins telephone interview. There was an online assessment test of about 1.5 hours prior to the interview.
Type of questions: Behavioral, technical (but, very high level view and no coding as such), knowledge about the position and products
Advice: It's a very short interview. So, keep your answers brief and get to the point.
I wasn't asked if I had any questions and was told that they would get back to me in 1-2 weeks. They sent me an email the very next day and told me that they weren't interested in going forward with me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The difficult part was the time duration of the interview. Since it was supposed to last about 20 minutes, I shouldn’t have tried to explain my answers like in a behavioral interview. I should have gotten to the point by giving brief answers.
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 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.
