I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Jun 2015
Interview
The first interview in microsoft. It was a cool but difficult Interview. The interviewer asked me to tell him about some project I completed in university. He have also asked basic questions such as "what is polymorphism?", "what is heritance?", and so on.
Then the interview actually started. He asked me about binary tree serialization, including code writing. He left me a couple of minutes alone in room and then checked my code with me. He also asked me to sketch on the board what I did. Then asked me one more little question about "SetAll" in O(1), It was an easy (and tricky) question but didn't know the solution, so he tried to help me but I failed. After 90 minutes the interview was ended.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Serialization/Deserialization of a Binary Tree,
Data structure to set all values in O(1)
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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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