I applied through college or university. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Received a mail about 1 month after applying online to set up a phone interview.
The phone interview was pretty simple, and lasted for about 45 minutes. The interviewer just asked about my projects on my Resume.
I received a mail within 3 days saying that u cleared the phone interview and inviting my to the Redmond office for an onsite interview. However, the actual onsite interview took place only after 2 months because of the sheer number of candidates they were interviewing.
The onsite interview consisted of 3 rounds (including a lunch interview). They asked me about some design questions and some related to Trees and Lists.
Two days later, I received a mail from the recruiter that I didn't clear the interview.
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.
