Met the MS guys on school's career, and got the on-campus interview a month later. It was quite simple. The question is to remove duplicates in a sorted linked list, and some behavioral questions. And about a week later got the on-site interview. There are four rounds. Questions I remember are: (1) turn a string "sdasd..." into all possible strings where each char can be replaced by its corresponding upper letter; (2) write a singleton class which should be fine to used in a multi-thread environment, and also asked some brain teaser problems; (3) a sorted array with all elements appear twice except one, find that element (the best solution should be O(logn)); (4) this round the interviewer is terrible, asked some meaningless problem.
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a sorted array with all elements appear twice except one, find that element (the best solution should be O(logn))
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
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The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
45 mins technical interview with a member of their San fran team. Very relaxed and informal but questions were focused and lots of follow ups. Easy to schedule as was over video conferencing platform
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.