I applied through university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jul 2022
Interview
It was an OnCampus Drive at NIT. The first round was Online Assessment where 2 simple DSA questions were asked. 43 Students were shortlisted in the first round.
The second was the technical interview round, where a medium-level DSA question were asked.
In the third round again DSA question of mid-hard level were asked.
Final Round HR+DSA, a problem on string implementation(lot of corner cases) were asked for first 15min, then 15min HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st Technical Interview Round: Simple problem of finding a path in a maze. (Hint: BFS)
2nd Technical Interview Round: Hard problem on quick sort. Nut and Bolt problem on GFG.
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.