I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Aug 2018
Interview
*****Please do not go when called for hiring drive events*****
It was a hiring drive conducted in Bangalore Centre for Hyderabad location. The interview process consisted of 3 major algorithm and data structures rounds that happened on that day. Not sure about further rounds as they didn't happen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question related to LinkedLists, Online Algorithms, Arrays e.t.c
They took all day from 11 AM to 7 PM.... Conducted only 3 rounds....I had positive feedback for 3 rounds....At 7 PM HR came and said they would revert in a week for details on further process.
2 weeks passed, but no update from HR. When I followed up, HR said that the team is currently not hiring.
I don't know, why would they conduct interview in such a case. Or at least the HR, should have had the courtesy of reverting about the same.
I would advise to not to go for hiring drives. If you are going and all rounds do not get completed on the same day, then do not think that further rounds are going to happen.
In hiring drives HR's intention is to just get as many people for the interview.
This was an all-day affair where I was interviewed by four or five different managers, including a lunch interview. I was asked to solve programming puzzles as well as about my work history.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked numerous programming problems, such as how to mock up a program to play the game Battleship.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Aug 2018
Interview
It was a regular process, phone interview, technical interview over the phone and using an online tool. Then for the on-site loop, I had 5 interviews.
It was a really good experience, I liked the team and the conversations we had.