I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
Had a friend who had just completed an internship refer me and was asked to send my CV to a recruiter. From there I was asked for a 45 min phone interview speaking with a recruiter who was taking notes. This was mostly just behavioural style questions as well as being asked to outline how I would test 4 different functions of a pen. After passing this interview, two and a half weeks later I was invited to the Sydney office for an in person interview. This consisted of 4, hour long interviews, all technical with very little focus on me as a person. Results were given immediately after the interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Determine if an array from 1..n has a duplicate in constant time and space.
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
