I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2020
Interview
the interview started with general background about my studies and experience, after that part the interviewer started asking technical questions about software design and data structures. that was the entire process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
you are given NxN boolean array of ships location, where "true" cell indicates a ship or a part of a ship is in this cell.
find the number of ships in the map.
*Note: 2 different ships or part of ships cant be adjancent
example :
[ 0 0 0 0 0 ]
[ 1 0 0 1 1 ]
[ 1 0 0 0 0 ]
[ 1 0 1 0 0 ]
[ 0 0 1 0 0 ]
==> 3 ships
It was a great Interview, people nice and questions all in the area of work and study. Whole process took around 3 months by this is just an entry-level so I can understand
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Feb 2020
Interview
I had previously had an internship so I went straight to final round, stardard coding questions. They flew me to Dublin and paid for 2 nights at a great hotel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 coding questions to reflect on, and they would also ask you how to improve it, trade-offs.. There were also behavioural questions, classing "Cracking the Coding interview"