I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jun 2024
Interview
I interviewed at Microsoft Tel Aviv, Israel in June 2024. First I had a short call with the team leader who talked a bit about the team and what they're doing. Then I got invitation to 2 technical interviews.
The first technical interview was with the TL and it was relatively fair, the second one was with a senior in the team which did not got well.
The second interviewer asked tricky questions and asked me to review code that is so meaningless and no one on earth would write such trashy code. In addition, the overall experience was bad because the job description was so irrelevant, they asked for knowledge in any programming language in the job description, but in the interviews they asked to write in C only and asked low-level questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Question was something about strings, the solution was to implement my own hash table with the right hash function in C from scratch.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
45 mins technical interview with a member of their San fran team. Very relaxed and informal but questions were focused and lots of follow ups. Easy to schedule as was over video conferencing platform
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.