The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Manipal) in Aug 2012
Interview
Overall Process
Round 1
90 Minutes Online round (MCQ + no negetive marking)
This round had 3 sections - Mathematics, logical reasoning and technical section and for each section 30 minutes were allotted + 1 minute break between every section
>Mathematics- General questions like river and boat question, tap and water relative velocity, vectors etc. (Go through RS Agrawal's book and you can easily score well in this section)
>Logical Reasoning : Paragraph based question, questions on relation (A's father is B and C is sister of B what is relation between A and B), and some similar questions (A B C D E two are male one is lawer ......etc etc, who's profession is lawer )
>Technical: Basic C/C++
Round 2.
Programming
4 questions 90 minutes
3 of them would be purely programming based (basic stack queue linkedlist)
1 question on error testing/real world problem (no programming)
Round 3 and 4
Technical Interviews
70% datastructures and algorithms
10% Behavourial (Tell me about yourself, why do you want to join microsoft etc etc)
rest 20% operating system, sql, puzzle(at max 1 puzzle)
Round 5
HR interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell a real world example of polymorphism and it was quite difficult for me to come up with an answer.
I apply online got interview a couple months later. technical and behavioral interview and technical was a leetcode easy with some behavioral and behavioral was typical interview questions nothing on my resume
in oa had a very strage question, only solved in 1 language and unclear instructions, even if you chose a different language, if you got this question it has oto be in what they chose.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
in oa had a very strage question, only solved in 1 language and unclear instructions, even if you chose a different language, if you got this question it has oto be in what they chose.
