I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2014
Interview
I applied the Software Development Engineer Intern 2015 Summer in our University Career Site before the recruiters came to our school on the career fair.
After about one month, I got email from their recruiter saying that they would like to set up an in-person interview at school. I selected the best time fit me.
There are three sections in the first round interview. The first is talking about myself and my projects listed on my resume. Then I had a coding problem about basic algorithm on paper. The last section is asking questions about Microsoft.
The interview process was pretty standard, and the whole interview last about 45 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The most difficult question, I would say, was the explanation of one technology that I listed on my resume, but I was not well-prepared for.
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.
