I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Red Rock, NM) in Feb 2021
Interview
Interview with 3 people from the department that was looking to hire a new software developer which took place at the Redmond campus. All 3 people had several questions relating to both past experience and hypothetical situations for which different problems were posed and your answers were challenged by each panel member.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some examples of challenges that you had to develop new approaches to overcome?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2020
Interview
The interviewers are very courteous and are genuinely interested in you. There were 5 interview rounds scheduled for me and had a gap of 10 mins between them. They also had a person accompany me for lunch and it was wonderful experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was scheduled for 5 rounds. 3 rounds were in Data structures and algorithms which were of mid level complexity. Please do remember that they are looking at your approach. Don't jump in to solutions. Build your algorithm. One interview was on my current project and how i would build it differently. The last interview was a design question where i had to build a Monopoly game.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) in Feb 2021
Interview
First there was online test with 3 questions and a quiz. It was average questions but time was 1hr. so you have to be fast. You must write comments if you want to make it. I did solved all 3 coding problem. Then was final round with 4 interview all coding related.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Asked to implement Kadanes max sub-array sum algo.