I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Phone call straight to onsite. For phone call it just went over resume and asked me a couple technical questions - thread vs. process, describe recursion to 5 year old. Recruiter was not experienced so not sure how he judged me. On site was around 40 other people, all split into groups of four. In our group of four we had four interviewers who did 1 on 1 with us. Three technical and one behavioral. All super nice. Other than your skills they wanted to see your attitude, willingness to learn, how you accept criticism, and excitement to programming. All of them went through resume and asked questions on them. Also be prepared to know OOP principles.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
two-sum: return indices of two numbers in an array that add up to n
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
45 mins technical interview with a member of their San fran team. Very relaxed and informal but questions were focused and lots of follow ups. Easy to schedule as was over video conferencing platform
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.