I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Phone interview lasted about 30 minutes. I felt like I underperformed but still got called back. Scheduling the real interview was a pain but very flexible.
Interview was 5 individual interviews with different employees within the group, one being a phone interview. 3 focused on programming challenges, 1 on personal motivations/experiences/etc, and the final was a casual interview where I mostly asked questions. The programming interviews were all on a white board, which was the largest difficulty for me personally.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a non-recursive traversal of a Binary Search Tree using constant space and O(n) run time.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
