I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Some engineer will come from the company, ask you about some basic information, and ask for an experience of your successful teamwork / difficult situations, and how you made it. Then it will be a technical problem, which is basicallya programming / algorithm problem. Write on the whiteboard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your experience of teamwork that you think can never succeed unless you did teamwork?
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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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Question 1
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.
One HR interview, then two problem-solving interviews (beginer level) on HackerRank. You can choose the best programming language for you to use in solving problems. You should think out loud to enable your interviewer to understand how you would think to solve the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the lowest difference between two numbers in a list
