The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY)
Interview
Applied for a frontend position but was interviewed by a backend only developer and asked data structure questions. Only one of the questions pertained to the frontend which was odd since it was a frontend position and my background is frontend. The interview did not pertain to the skills listed on the job description. It was more focused on how recently the applicant has done leetcode problems rather than the skills in the job description.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) in Apr 2016
Interview
I got contacted by a recruiter and applied that position online. Then we scheduled a phone screen in a week.
In the phone interview, we went over my resume quickly and jumped to skill testing part very soon to solve an algorithm problem.
The problem was kinda vague, asked for declaration, got an easy 'Yes' or 'No' as feedback.
Not a very ideal interview experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have an in-memory tree data structure. each node can have multiple children (can be more than 2). it's not search or balanced.
Task: serialize it to a file so that you can deserialize it later with the same structure
node values can be just any integers
