I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Jan 2019
Interview
Very proffesional, introduction went smoothly, then I had a small talk with the interviewer about his favourite golf club. He gather information regarding my past work experience and my skills. Asked me questions regarding where I should stand with the company.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What do you know about the position and our company?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2021
Interview
I had the opportunity to interview with the CSEO team during one of their Interview days. The team was very nice and engaged and I spoke with 4 individuals in 4 different teams under the CSEO's umbrella. Each one had a coding challenge that dealt with different data structures. Although I didn't receive an offer, it was a great opportunity to speak with the team. I had a wonderful recruiter helping through the process (I will say, some of the recruiters are a hit or miss, hopefully you get a good responsive individual!).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An example of a time you learned something new and applied it to your project.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2017
Interview
The process was very scatterbrained and poorly run. The group didn't have a clear leader and their criteria of what they were looking for in an engineer shifted with every interviewer. The interview included a really awkward development test sat in front of Visual Studio coding an example solution, but there were a variety of setup problems as well as an incomplete specification of the problem that made the process slow and overcomplicated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The racehorse problem: given 25 horses and no stopwatch, and you can only race 5 horses at the same time, how few races does it take to find the fastest horse?