I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes) in Sep 2014
Interview
I applied through campus recruiting.
In campus they asked a question about how to convert a double number into a String,
2 weeks later I received an invitation for the second round in Guanajuato, Guanajuato.
In this round I was asked how to get the maximum and minimum of an IPv4 address, I believe i answered correctly but I might have skipped a few details (on late sept).
The week after that I received an email telling me to wait for results with a message saying that they were not sure about these results and that the recruiter would have a meeting with my interviewer to decide wether to keep me or not (last time I applied I received one saying that they were soon to reach its peak recruiting volume, which makes me think they still interview people in other regions of LATAM and make you wait until they have "x" number of "good" candidates to which they do a "SELECT TOP 30 * order by "unkown parameters"), it also said that final results would be ready by Oct 24, I didn't receive any notice from them until I asked after such date, they decided to end the interviews for that year, even though the recruiter was a very nice person, I didn't like the fact that they forgot to notify me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What has been the most difficult project of which you were part of.
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.