I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2012
Interview
It was a very straight forward technical interview, i.e., no behavioral questions were asked at all. My interviewer was SDE II from the Windows 8 phone team.
This interview was started with several administrative questions, such as:
-your graduation date
-whether you have any pending offer right now
-which area do you want to work in Microsoft (OS, application, cloud, etc)
-which product are you most interested in working on
-which programming language are you most comfortable with
Then we moved on to the technical part, where he tested my knowledge on the following (as far as I remembered):
- what’s quick-sort and the complexity of it
-polymorphism and how to implement it
-what is memory leak and does Java allow memory leak
-what is garbage collection and how does it work
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an algorithm which produces all the permutations of a given string.
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.
