I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2012
Interview
The interview was also held for SDET position... It was a phone interview and lasted for about 52 mins...
First it was all about me and my projects and skills and previous works of my own...
Which language are you interested in and what was the most difficult part of your projects..
I was going on explaining a lot about c# and c++ and he asked differences and told him...
That was the first technical question .. there on he asked only behavioural questions
1.9 marbles question...
2.test a calculator
3.how do you explain internet to a 5 year old
I fared well on all of these...
Later asked location preferences and all that sort of q's
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is no difficult part at all.. only thing I fumbled on was during explaining him my project experiences... and the question that what field were you interested in(particularly in MSFT)?
I said windows mobile and OS's..
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.
