I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Roorkee) in Dec 2017
Interview
It was campus placement.
Process consisted of Online Test followed by group-fly and then interviews on campus.
1. Online Test : It had 3 coding questions. Test was of moderate level.
2. Group Fly Round : Then there was on group fly round on campus in which we were given two questions and we had to solve and code the solutions on paper. Then they evaluated and shortlisted candidates for interviews.
3. Interviews : Had three round of interviews with two being purely technical and last one being technical cum HR round.
Interview questions [10]
Question 1
[Online Test] Q1 : Given prices of a stock on N days in an array, find the max profit we can make by buying and selling in those days.
[Interviews - Round 2] Q1 : Given strategy/protocol on how producer would produce. Tell the strategy for consumer to consume in single producer multiple consumer model.
[Interviews - Round 2] Q2 : Write functions to find the middle node of a linked list and insert near middle such that after the insertion middle element does not change.
[Interviews - Round 3] Q1 : Given a shuffle function which shuffles 52 cards you want to check whether the functions is good shuffler or bad. You can do so by performing 10 M (or 100 M or 1 B) shuffles. Now give us a efficient strategy to perform this and give efficient data structure.
[Interviews - Round 3] Q2 : This was mainly HR questions. Some of the questions are What do you want to do in life ? How did you get AIR 737 in JEE. What are your strong points / skills.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.