I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Sep 2021
Interview
the first stage interview include a simple codility test which had 3 questions about different subjects like backtracking, sorting problems, strings, arrays and overall the questions are about basic cs knowledge.
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Question 1
here is a 40 kg stone that broke into 4 pieces such that you can measure any weight between 1kg to 40 kg using a balance. What are the weights of the broken pieces?
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
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Question 1
I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.
One HR interview, then two problem-solving interviews (beginer level) on HackerRank. You can choose the best programming language for you to use in solving problems. You should think out loud to enable your interviewer to understand how you would think to solve the problem.
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Question 1
Find the lowest difference between two numbers in a list