I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Mar 2024
Interview
3 hour long interviews one after the other. The interviews were all technical with coding and similar but with three different people. The questions were very focused on data structures. You are given a problem/task and have to comment which structure you want to use for it and implement it. Even though the structures were some "simpler" ones like queues and hash maps it included recognizing, commenting and explaining of modifications to them so you can adapt their functionalities like priority queues and linked hash maps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are operations that can be committed to a bank account. Those operations are queued in some way until you use a commit function that performs them. Explain how you would implement this, which structures you would use and then code it
3 rounds of leetcode medium, 2 questions were very easy, the last one was really hard (it was a binary tree question). They asked about space and time complexity. In terms of structures it was straight forward but the question itself was hard
Behavioural round consisted of "Tell me about yourself and why you wanna work for microsoft and resume screening. And technical interview consisted of 2 LC question 1 medium and 1 easy.
straightforward. directly jumped into data structure and algorithm and then a few fundamental computer science questions especially database management system and operating system then 2 or 3 questions related to resume.
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