I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) in Feb 2015
Interview
The onsite interview started at 8am. They had a hotel at the shuttle to pick a group of us up at 7. You will be interviewing for the same position with a group of other people, though the actual interview portions are 1 on 1. It's 4 interviews and then lunch. They questions alternated between the interviewer seeming to think I was completely incompetent basic programming questions and normal fairly difficult technical interview questions. There is a good amount of emphasis on your past experience, and a decent amount of the harder problems only required pseudocode. It is 8am, and there are only minimal breaks between interviews, during which you sit in the lobby chatting with your fellow interviewees/competition. There's some food there, as well as coffee, but be prepared to not have much time to eat or mentally refresh between interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a limited amount of information, design all the classes (just prototypes, no implementation) of how you would implement this system.
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.
