I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied through campus recruiting. Had first round interview on campus. It was around 30 minutes, and went through resume questions. Was asked to talk in detail about a project from my resume. Did not hear back from Microsoft for about 2 - 3 weeks, and I was suddenly contacted to schedule an on-site interview. On-site is standard 4 rounds of technical questions, data structures/algorithms. Heard back from them about 3 days after the on-site.
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Resume questions, standard data structures/algorithms.
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
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implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
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I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Jun 2026
Interview
The process started with an online HackerRank assessment. The main coding question involved partitioning an array of server capacities into K contiguous groups while minimizing the maximum group sum. The solution required binary search on the answer combined with a greedy validation function. The assessment focused on algorithms, problem solving, and time complexity analysis.
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Given an array representing server capacities and an integer K, divide the array into K contiguous groups such that the largest group sum is minimized. Return the minimum possible value of the maximum group sum.