I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2018
Interview
30 minute university on campus interview. Got an email from a recruiter that I would have an interview the following week. Asked about projects and one technical question. Technical question was the leetcode question atoi. Interviewer was very nice.
30 min phone call with former alumni. asked me questions about resume and interests. had a short coding question and then he told me to ask him questions. it was under 30 minutes and really casua
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2019
Interview
I got an email on handshake asking me to schedule an on-campus interview since Microsoft was coming to our college campus. I had applied to Microsoft a month earlier.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer asked about the most interesting project I did on my resume. Then he went to technical questions. Technical question: Which one is faster/efficient: Java or Python? Why? Algorithm question: Sort a Big file whose data can't be loaded into memory all at once.