I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Mar 2016
Interview
The interviewer was reasonably congenial and since it was phone interview so I did not know the interviewer. It was not very clear from the interviewer's side as to the kinds of answers that he wanted. I could understand that he was in a hurry and since it was telephonic screening hence it became all the more difficult to understand and appreciate what the interviewer wanted. It appeared he had…
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a dictionary of strings and another string find out if the string is an exact match to some words in the dictionary or varies at most in only one place of some word of the dictionary.
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.
