Applied through a campus recruiting system and a referral. Had a short interview on campus. Moved on to an on site in my city that was 1 day. I had four interviews, where the questions were all leetcode easy and medium, or a famous hard. Interviewers typed on their laptop to write notes while I was whiteboarding, and whilst they did pre-emptively say that they weren't intentionally being rude, many typed so much that it gave me a bad vibe.
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Asked a question about how I would store a painting that contained shapes, which contained points. Didn't realise the interviewer expected me to do a system design, awkwardly talked to her for half an hour about what she meant.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
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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.
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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.