I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2020
Interview
Round-1(Online Coding Round):
The recruiter sent me the link for the test on Monday and asked me to complete it by Tuesday if I wanted to get an invite for the drive on Friday.
Codility Platform, 2 Coding Questions, 70 minutes
It was just an eligibility round. Anyone who scored more than 50% was invited for the placement drive.
Placement Drive
The interviews started at 9AM on a Friday. Each round was an elimination round.
After each round, I got a call from the Recruiter with the details of the next round.
Each Interviewer will give some time in the end to ask questions. Try to be prepared with some questions.
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.
