I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
I didi my first interview in my university and after one month I heared back from MS. I interviewed with 4 people during my on-site interview. The process was well organized and I was be able to interview with the team that I'm interested in most. The technical questions were not too tough, and everyone asked me about former projects. They supported all the costs during 3 day interview and the feedback was with in one week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you find a target string in a source string?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2010
Interview
Asked about how to locate a element in an rotated, sorted array.
You've been given an array that is sorted and then rotated.
example
Let arr = [1,2,3,4,5] which is sorted and then rotated say twice to the right to give
[4,5,1,2,3]
This can be done in O(logN) using a slightly modified binary search.
The interesting property of a sorted + rotated array is that when you divide it into two halves, atleast one of the two halves will always be sorted.
I am not interested in the groups of developing explorers, so I did not proceed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about how to locate a element in an rotated, sorted array.
You've been given an array that is sorted and then rotated.
example
Let arr = [1,2,3,4,5] which is sorted and then rotated say twice to the right to give
[4,5,1,2,3]
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2011
Interview
She verify my personal information first, and then turn to ask me some question about my project on the resume. The question was like, how many people in the group, please describe the project, what do you do in that project, what will you do if you have a chance to redo the project again... etc Then she ask me two tech question. The total time is like 20 minutes, and i guess their interview schedule is very full. She does not even have time to let me ask question :(