I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2021
Interview
Three rounds. one technical recruiter (45min), one with the two members of Microsoft research group (30 min), and a whole day interview with the team that I will be joining. The third round consist of three 45 min interviews including a coding, a statistics, and questions related to my research.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Describe deep learning to 5 year old kid.
2. My own projects.
3. Binary Search
4. SQL question
5. Statistics such as mean and variance and how to compute it when you get the data sequentially without saving the whole data.
I had my first round as a phone screening round. It was for 30 mins and was with someone from the HR team. Asked me general questions from my resume and digged a bit deep into my previous projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about one of your projects and what difficulty you faced during that
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2021
Interview
One phone screen with a recruiter. After I passed that screen, the recruiter scheduled four 45-min interviews with 15 min breaks. I received an offer for the data science internship role after feedback from all these interviews was collected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL question, ML questions (bias/variance tradeoff, precision/recall, regularization methods). 1 question about optimizing a manufacturing plant using data, mostly behavioral or previous project experience questions