I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2020
Interview
Very straightforward and organized process. The final loop stages take up to 4 hours with up to 5 rounds of interviews depending on the department you interview with. Afterwards you get a gift voucher for your time with them regardless of the decision.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2018
Interview
Questions were not overly diffiicult. The engineers however were unfriendly. One interview just glared at me while we were discussing a solution. It felt like he was hoping i would fail.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Aug 2020
Interview
There was an online test conducted on mettl platform. The questions were very simple. We have to solve 3 questions in 90 mins. The first two were normal data structure algorithm questions like infix to postfix and postfix evaluation. The third one involved using dynamic programming and kadane algorithm. About 30 people were selected for the interview round
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
He asked me to introduce myself first and asked me questions on my projects. He asked to give me scenarios where my project idea might fail and how to tackle those situations?
Given a nxn matrix having integers in it. We have to find the longest decreasing path in that matrix. We can start from anywhere in the matrix and can only move left, right or down in the matrix.