I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Mumbai) in Oct 2011
Interview
There were 4 rounds of interview, each of around 45-60 minutes.
Inteviewers were basically intersted in checking problem solving skills and asked some questions on data structures and asked me code those using language of my choice.
Some of questions were regarding OS and I was asked to write code on that too.
Overall it was good process , enjoyed it :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In one of the round interviewer asked me to write code for deadlock prevention in for system in which resorce requests come from processes dynamically (at run time)
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.
