I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sydney) in June 2016
Interview
I applied through a recruiter at a careers fair at my university. A week after applying I got a on campus interview.
The interview was for 30 mins, and the person interviewing me was very polite.
He didn't ask me any behavioural questions, we jumped straight into the interview question.
I got a chance to ask questions at the end.
The interviewer was not very concerned with syntax, but more on my ability to solve the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given a 2d array of characters, as well as a list of words. Your job is to find all of the words that occur in this 2d array. Words can be formed by moving in all directions (diagonal included).
You are allowed to pre-process the words however you like.
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.