I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2007
Interview
Was contacted by a recruiter who scheduled a time for me to have a phone screen with a dev manager. Interview with the dev manager for phone screen was relatively simple. I was asked simple algorithmic questions which were available on various sites containing microsoft interview questions. The dev manager informed me that the recruiter will get in contact with me to set up an on site interview. Recruiter takes care of setting up an interview loop and making sure that the candidate has everything taken care of while interviewing.
My on site interview consisted of 6 interviews mostly with members of the team that was interviewing me. Interviewers will mostly be Senior development leads and higher up's or in some cases SDE II's. Interview questions were mostly standard Microsoft interview questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to come up with edit distance algorithm and code it on white board. For someone who has not gone over the algorithm recently this will be a tricky problem to solve.
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.
