I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2016
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter through Linkedin. Applied through Microsoft webpage and also sent my cv to the recruiter (it was requested by him). Got a phone interview about 2 weeks later, they did not ask any personal questions, only about my previous experience and projects. Seemed to be really interested in my bachelor project, she made a lot of questions about it. Then a brain teaser which I failed, she did not seem to care too much, just explained the answer to me. Then she allowed me to ask her questions and she answered them in detail. Really nice, pleasant interview. She told me they will contact me in 3 weeks.
Stage 1: Take-Home Assessment – A 1-hour coding assignment consisting of two technical questions (one Easy and one Medium).
Stage 2: Virtual Interview Day – A Zoom-based interview day comprising three consecutive interviews.
Star method completely end to end with 3 interviews in the same day. It was online and then we were split into rooms. You mess up one and you mess up all
Maximum subarray questions+ oops + dbms. find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
