I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sydney) in July 2013
Interview
Signed up with a recruiter, and then got an interview on campus.. Interviewer was very nice, and the process was very easy. Offer was to fly to the USA for the actual internship. Question was not very difficult, but then again this was only the first stage of the recruitment
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Remove all duplicates from an integer array without using any additional data structures.
1 Phone Round that was 30 mins where I was asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions.
2 back to back 45 minute interviews each with 1 coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the phone interview, they asked me what technologies about Microsoft was exciting.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
One 30 min call with behavioral and simple coding question. Second round involves two 45-60 min coding/behavioral interviews, with a 10-15 min break between the two depending on how fast you finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Parsing code into a text document
2. Word search in a 2D array of words given a list of words.
1 Online Test
3 Technical Coding Interviews
They also asked about company culture fit questions and had a techno-hr round as the 3rd interview
The online test was fairly simple and heavily proctored and the company focuses on resume too
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Structures and Algorithms and also about OS and OOPs
