I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Jerusalem, Jerusalem) in Oct 2020
Interview
I took an online coding test through www.codility.com and then had a skype interview. The internship post was in Israel but the interview was in English with an American interviewer.
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The online test was performed by www.codility.com and concluded of 3 questions.
The interview wasn't really technical, but I was asked to try and explain the concept of recursion as if I was talking to a 6 year old (at least for me it was the toughest part of the interview... :/) along the interview I was also asked to try and solve a number of not difficult riddles.
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
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Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
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I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.
I interviewed at Microsoft (Cairo, Cairo Governorate)
Interview
One HR interview, then two problem-solving interviews (beginer level) on HackerRank. You can choose the best programming language for you to use in solving problems. You should think out loud to enable your interviewer to understand how you would think to solve the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest difference between two numbers in a list