I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Began with standard HR phone screen including a few brain teasers and technical problems, but mostly focused on my background in computer science, technical ability, etc. The interviewer was very nice and cordial but was somewhat difficult to understand. She said I should hear back within a week about where I stand in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a box of red balls, a box of blue balls, and a box of red and blue balls. What is the minimum number of boxes you can open and know what is the contents of each box?
1 Phone Round that was 30 mins where I was asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions.
2 back to back 45 minute interviews each with 1 coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the phone interview, they asked me what technologies about Microsoft was exciting.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
One 30 min call with behavioral and simple coding question. Second round involves two 45-60 min coding/behavioral interviews, with a 10-15 min break between the two depending on how fast you finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Parsing code into a text document
2. Word search in a 2D array of words given a list of words.
1 Online Test
3 Technical Coding Interviews
They also asked about company culture fit questions and had a techno-hr round as the 3rd interview
The online test was fairly simple and heavily proctored and the company focuses on resume too
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Structures and Algorithms and also about OS and OOPs
