I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tokio) in May 2017
Interview
After submitting my resume, I conducted a coding assignment, then went through an on-site interview. There were 3 rounds of interviews with 3 people from different teams coming to assess me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Merge two sorted arrays
- Partition a large file that does not fit into a memory so that it can be fed as training data into a machine learning model
I interviewed through Skype. There were a total of three rounds of interviews and each interview may last for 60 minutes. All the interviewers were nice and the questions were not very difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a data structure to get the mean value of input in the last five minutes.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Four 45-minute interview back to back. 3 of them are technical and 1 is behavioral. About 15 of us interviewed with the Azure team. Many of the questions are system based.