I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Montreal, QC) in Mar 2013
Interview
After apply through my college recruiter I got a first-round phone interview. It lasted about 45 minutes and first involved a few behaviour questions (e.g. Why do you want to work at Microsoft, what kind of coding are doing outside of school). After, I was bombarded by a plethora of technical questions. Here are a few of them:
What are differences between Java and C?
Why would someone use Java over C/C++ and vice-versa?
What's inheritance?
What's a virtual function?
What's the JVM?
What's a disadvantage of the JVM ?
What's the difference between an array and linkedlist?
After this I was asked one coding question: Reverse a singly linked-list with and without using an auxiliary data structure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse a singly linked-list with and without using an auxiliary data structure.
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.
