I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Toronto, ON) in Sep 2016
Interview
2 Interviews at School, delving into deep technical information on past projects. First person was a general "Talk about your work in previous internships and work done in at school. Second person was a few technical white-board questions, then a deep dive into a robotics project I was currently working on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why did you choose this particular IMU on your robotics project? Why didn't you use something capable of X?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Apr 2020
Interview
So it is a total of 4 interviews first one being HR online on skype which is typical hr questions plus a little puzzle (in English doesnt matter if you are going to work at the company hq which isnt in English speaking country) and then other 2 professional interviews usually 2 on 1 and ends with another HR
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The puzzle they asked me for instance was a fairly simply one the typical apple puzzle :
You have nine apples of the same size. Nine of them weight the same, and one of them weighs slightly more or less. How can you find the apple that is different by using a balance and only two weightings?
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Mar 2019
Interview
Firstly, an online test on Mettle platform was conducted. There were 3 questions and an hour and half was given. Following this, the ones who were selected, were called to Microsoft office for the further rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the kth largest element in a binary search tree.