I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Stoke-on-Trent, England) in Jan 2022
Interview
It was good.
1. But the interviewer was having a bad internet connection which led to only an audio call on Teams. A video call would be better.
2. The interviewer asked me NOT to say out loud my thoughts while solving the given problem, contrary to which I read.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q. Which year would you be graduating?
Q. What inspired you to apply at MS?
Q. Which application do you like from MS? And how would you improve it?
Q. Describe the most difficult project that you have done using your programming skills.
Q. Describe a difficult situation in your experience where you had to tackle a problem.
Q. How would you explain multi threading in layman terms. Use no technical terms.
Q. Problem solving question: (5 mins to solve):
There's a stone weighing 40 kg. You are given a scale where you can put the stone on one side and an item (whose weight is to be measured) on the other side. The weight of the item can be measured inclusive of 1 kg and 40 kg. If the stone is broken into 4 selected parts, then the weight can be measured. Is it true? If yes, what are the weights of the 4 parts of the stone?
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.
Interview questions [1]
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest difference between two numbers in a list
