I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I was contacted for an on campus interview. The interviewer was not very nice and clearly was in a hurry to get things done. I was asked one technical question and some behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you are building a textfield in an app that takes in a specific format like a date, create a function that would take in the appropriate format and see if the input matches.
Started with a 30 min informational interview. The next round was a technical interview for 6o minutes. Most problems were no more difficult then leet code medium. Then it moved into a full super day.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jan 2023
Interview
Four rounds - mic of technical and behavioral. Leetcode questions were asked and system design questions were asked in technical rounds. For behavioral, it was mostly straightforward situation based questions. The ability to convey your thoughts was also assessed.
Started with introductory questions, then moved on to discuss projects and tech stack. Then a DSA question was given and I was asked to code it in my local editor, complete with the main function.