I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied through campus recruiting. Had first round interview on campus. It was around 30 minutes, and went through resume questions. Was asked to talk in detail about a project from my resume. Did not hear back from Microsoft for about 2 - 3 weeks, and I was suddenly contacted to schedule an on-site interview. On-site is standard 4 rounds of technical questions, data structures/algorithms. Heard back from them about 3 days after the on-site.
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Resume questions, standard data structures/algorithms.
Easy 2 back to back interviews both leetcode medium. Second one was a bit more challenging, need to know how to sort without enough space. Other than that smooth process
A leetcode style test with three problems, then three interviews with different managers ( for each it was a coding problem and behavioral questions). Each interview was 1 hour long
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Question 1
How do I react and handle a conflict situation at work
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
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Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)