I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I interviewed on campus fall 2017 and then got an email saying all their internships were filled for summer 2018. Fall 2018 I get an email from the same recruiter asking if I'm still interested and if I'd like to apply for a full time job. I said yes so they flew me out for a final round interview 2 weeks later. It was half a day starting at 7:30 am and ending around 1 pm . There were 4 1-1 interviews. The first interview was a technical data structures question. The second was testing and verification of a black box program. The third was a logic (how do you think through problems) and then an architecture problem. The last one was completely behavioral. Interviewed on a Thursday and found got an email 10 days later saying they were going to extend a full-time offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you know the runtime of a program is O(n). Now, how would you test it?
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.
