Screening phone call with technical recruiter. Then a couple weeks later an email saying I passed the screen. Then an email to schedule 2nd round coding interviews. Given up to 3 weeks to prepare.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Focused on projects listed on resume, tell me about a time you've worked in a group, explain a particular technical concept to a child, what technologies do you like best, what are your two strongest languages. Coding was array-based
There was a thirty five minute phone call with a casual tone and getting to know you, then there were coding problems and you had to solve them live in front of hiring team to see your problem-solving abilities and logical thinking.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2020
Interview
Final Round:
I had a very difficult interviewer (I don't think most will be like mine)
Had an interview with a recruiter first, then went to final rounds where I had two rounds of behavioral and coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Final Round:
I had a very difficult interviewer (I don't think most will be like mine)
Two questions -
1. backtracking, bit manipulation question - permutations of a word
2. word/string manipulation to reverse