I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Praga) in Nov 2019
Interview
There were 3 stages. 1st stage was a phone call with HR. We exchanged some general information, I explained who and what I am, they explained what kind of job it is and what interview was gonna be. 2nd stage was an online session with an technical interviewer. They asked to solve a relatively simple task online and explain the solution. Nothing special. Then they invited me to visit them in Prague to be interviewed in person. They provided assistance with visa process and booked/paid airplane tickets and the hotel. Interview was carried on in their Prague office (very nice one). It lasted 4 hours. I was interviewed by 4 persons (very high profile Microsoft employees seriously involved in development of Visual Studio and .NET). Each interviewer asked me some general questions to test my "soft skills" and also asked me to solve a problem writing code on a whiteboard (writing it on the whiteboard was the most uncomfortable part of all this). Some tasks were quite difficult, some were sort of tricky. Interviewers were very friendly and very nice. It was a pleasure to meet all them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to refactor recursive calls to avoid possible stack overflow?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Taipé) in Mar 2021
Interview
* Phone Interview with HR: Resume & Experience
* Technical & Behavioral Interview
- OnSite * 3
- Phone * 3
Technical & Behavioral Interviews:
- Interview with Hiring manager, team members, and related stakeholders with that team.
- Ask some problem solving question and answer it on whiteboard or coding sharing.
- Ask some questions for experience
- Ask some behavioral questions for leadership.
- Q&A
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem Solving:
- Find the corresponding number in Pascal Triangle with the given row and column.
- Given a list with numbers between 1 ~ n:
* If there is only one number appearing twice, and other numbers appear only once, how to find it?
* If there are K numbers appearing twice, and other numbers appear only once, how to find them?
* If there is only one number appearing K times, and other numbers appear only once, how to find that number?
- We have a map with some spots, please find a way to aggregate near-by spots into a number to represent how many spots in any area of a map when we zoom-out that map, so that users won't only see a lot of dot on a map.
System Design & Architect
- Please design CI/CD flow or rules to make sure: SLA, Scalability, and crash Regression.
- We have an OCR engine implementation. Please design a system to handle the following scenario: We have a lot of users who want to parse their pdf files with that OCR engine, and they can query status and get their report.
Behavioral Question:
- Describe your working experience.
- How you decide your career path, and what's your plan in the next 3~5 year?
- It seems that you're not stable during some jobs (especially for the ones which are not exceed 1 year), I think you have a good story on it, what is the key reason you decide to leave those jobs?
- How will you do if you are a new manager for a team which contains many members who have already worked here?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2021
Interview
Dos de los 3 entrevistadores abrieron con introducciones de ellos, hablando un poco de lo que hecho en mi trayectoria para romper el hielo y despues brincamos a la resolucion de problemas. Uno de los entrevistadores solo saludo y directamente pego el problema a resolver, tuvo muy poca comunicacion y fue hasta cierto punto grosero, cuando seleccion Java como lenguaje de programacion para el problema hizo una expresion sarcastica diciendo "ah, Java.."
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
1) Imagina que recibes un string que pesa gigas y la cantidad de caracteres es mayor a la permitida por un integer, como harias para verificar si el string es un palindromo