I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2014
Interview
I gave my resume to a college recruiter. A week later I was notified that I'd been chosen for the first screen interview on my school's campus. The interview ended up being very straightforward. Began and ended with small talk regarding myself, the interviewer and Microsoft in general. Was not asked any data structure/algorithm questions which was surprising to me. The only technical question asked was regarding string manipulation within a function.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create a function that accepts a C-style string (has a null terminating character) and a char n, and if the string contains n chars, remove the chars and handle the empty spaces after removal.
Example:
Input -- void removeChar(char[] glassdoor char c)
Output -- gladoor
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.