I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2021
Interview
There was an initial technical interview, and then after was a final round interview. It included a technical and then a discussion with a few employees in which they asked you more about your previous work. This component was a little bit difficult since I wasn't really prepared to be quizzed on previous work and considering applying their solutions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Did you ever consider X solution to solve your ML research problem? Why do you think it would or wouldn't work?
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)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
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Question 1
I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.