I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Cambridge, MA) in Sept 2018
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I applied through a referral, heard back after around a month. I then had one technical screen (mine was onsite because I lived close). After around two weeks, I had a super-day of 4, 30-minute interviews. I heard back after a week after that.
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Simple list questions, how to design a board game, standard behaviorals, etc
A leetcode style test with three problems, then three interviews with different managers ( for each it was a coding problem and behavioral questions). Each interview was 1 hour long
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How do I react and handle a conflict situation at work
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
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implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
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I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.