I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Phone screening for software research. Mostly background stuff with one technical question. I was asked to create a function to check if a binary tree is sorted. I used a recursive solution that, at first, failed in some cases. The interviewer pointed that out there was a bug, I found the problem and devised a different solution. My second solution was correct but the interviewer disagreed. Told her I couldn't find the bug she was referring to, and that I'd email her with a correction as soon as I did. After some research and consideration, it turned out I was correct, so a weird process overall. Didn't get an offer.
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I was asked to create a function to check if a binary tree is sorted.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
