I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2016
Interview
As part of the process I had a screening process first. Couple of deigning questions around Big data since the team that interviewed is working on massive amount of data.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For a given sentence, write down an effective algorithm to reverse each word in the sentence.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Typical technical interviews, which you are asked to write code on white board to solve problems. After you finish your code, you may be asked for complexities and some follow-up questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. LCA in a binary tree
2. Find the medium of two sorted array
3. Find a number in a partially sorted matrix (the matrix is sorted column-wise and row-wise)