I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2012
Interview
Applied online to the company's site for college grads.
Was selected by recruiter and scheduled for a 45 min interview on campus with a Microsoft Developer.
This first interview went well so they scheduled interviews at the company headquarters in Seattle.
The recruiter asked me what my preferences were for the teams I'd like to work with, along with how I felt about relocating to Seattle.
The company takes care of travel and lodging, they put you in a hotel and you get up to $75 a day for meals at the hotel. $75 is more than plenty for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The company also reimburses costs for rentals or taxis, after the day long onsite interviews they gave out 3 taxi vouchers to go visit downtown Seattle.
On the interview day, you first meet with your recruiter, they will then direct you to the first person you interview with. At Microsoft, each developer has an office, so you meet with them at their office, and the interview is conducted there. Each interviewer then takes you to the next interviewer, and *they talk to each other* before your interview begins. Any weaknesses or flaws are exchanged I believe. I went through 5 interviews. I also had lunch with one of my interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string of words, sort the letters of each word in place.
eg "Hello World" --> "eHllo dlorW"
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.
