I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Nov 2017
Interview
I was contacted over LinkedIn. After providing an updated resume I was asked to take an hour long test on HackerRank. After the test, I was invited to interview onsite on a Saturday. There seemed to be around 22 candidates present and about 6 interviewers present on the day. The first round was a technical one, it went well. After waiting for more than three hours after the first, I was told that the first round had been positive and I would have to come in again on a weekday for further rounds. Three days later, they called to schedule another technical interview two days later via skype. A day before the interview, I received a mail stating that they would not be proceeding with my candidacy. So basically the HR there doesn't care about any one else's time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A form of the knapsack problem, another question on binary trees.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
6 hour interview with 6 different people. Went extremely well besides 1 that did a deep dive on super old tech, but the rest of the interviewers told me he was going to be the wild card and would likely take his input with a grain of salt.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement the logic for the move sequence of a Tower of Hanoi game.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2017
Interview
- Fairly straightforward process. One phone technical interview followed by an onsite comprising of 6 rounds of interviews. The interviews comprised mostly of typical coding questions and distributed systems design questions.