I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tampere) in Nov 2020
Interview
One phone call and a great conversation. The recruiter called me and found I'm not applicable since I wanted a part-time and they demanded a full-time employee. But he described to me very impressive tricks for job hunting.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
1 telephonic interview with screen share. He asked me questions about scaleability of the service and problems. I dI'd not have to write the whole code and selected the language that I wanted. I selected c#.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a service which will shrink the long urls for easy copy paste
I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2016
Interview
I applied for a contract .Net Developer position with Microsoft Redmond, The interview was for about an hour. The Hiring Manager asked few questions about REstful services, Web API, Web services,asp.net, ... Write the pseudo code/program on the white board and explain at least 2 iterations of the workflow. This is just a contract role, so they don't really go for different questions. If he finds ok, they send the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions they really care about is of data structures (linked list, binary sort, different sorting algorithm...), My question was about linked list. The hiring manager analyzes your approach and updates the recruiter. I got a feed back from the Recruiter saying that they are interested in my profile, not an offer yet.
