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.
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 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.
