I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
First I submitted my resume to the recruiter. Then I was selected for a first interview round, with an engineer. I had to solve a programming exercise. I could chose the programming language. I was asked also several questions about my background. Then I was chosen for the final round. In this round I performed 4 interviews with different engineers from different deparments. In each interview I had to solve a programming task, on paper, or work through a testing and diagnostic scenario. Also I was asked questions about my interests, expertise and background. The programming tasks were about graphs, searching, string processing.
In general the interviewers were nice and kind. At the end I was asked if I was willing to work in the Office team, but since I like software projects with hardware involved, I said it would be OK, but I'd rather be involved in the Xbox or Windows Phone teams. I think that cost me the offer, but the experience was good in general.
It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of meeting time intervals, determine if a person could attend all meetings.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024
Interview
I was invited to a technical interview with Microsoft. The interviewer started with a general question: “What happens when you type google.com into your browser?” They asked a few follow-up questions related to that.
After that, they gave me a LeetCode algorithmic question, which was at a hard level. The problem was “Integer to English Words.”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What happens when you type google.com into your browser?
2. “Integer to English Words” – LeetCode algorithmic question
Three tech interviews + one hiring manager VO, most of questions are medium to hard leetcode questions. Ask some questions about techniques you written on the resume. But I think they care more about the match of the research and the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
