I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2018
Interview
Invited for an on campus interview, then after doing well I was flown out to Redmond, Washington for an onsite. There were 4 back to back interviews, each with a different person and an hour long. About 10 minutes behavioral and the rest of time spent coding on a whiteboard.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2018
Interview
I got an interview through a friend in the company. Interview was a technical phone screen with a senior engineer. It was my first real technical interview, and it was done over microsoft skype which made the coding itself quite unpleasant.
converting numbers to the string of the words of they represent (like, say, for a checkbook). e.g. 234501 -> "two hundred thirty-four thousand five hundred and one"
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2018
Interview
Applied online and was then invited to an on campus interview. I answered the questions correctly, provided thorough explanations out loud, and gave multiple solutions and analyzed their space and time efficiency . Asked the recruiter about my performance at the end and recruiter told me I answered the questions well, that I had really cool projects, and that my former work experience was a plus. Told me I should expect to hear back soon. Got a generic rejection email a month later without ever moving onto the next round. Like... what ... I'm speechless. I'm very salty about all this .. saltier than a can of Campbell's soup ... so salty I put the ocean to shame. This is why I don't use windows computers anymore.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about yourself. Two medium difficulty questions involving singly linked lists.