I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2022
Interview
i applied through a person who works there and therefore got a quick response. first round was online coding skills test. it consisted of 2 tasks and time limit of 75 minutes. first task: given a string you must split into a minimal number of substrings in such a way that no letter occurs more than once in each substring. second task : 2 frogs that want to jump away and u need to return the longest distance
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
was asked about certain courses what's the difference between array and list i was asked to explain the term "multi-threading"
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Londra, Inghilterra) in Sep 2022
Interview
2 rounds, with an OA first then phone round then one session of 3 interviews with 15 minutes gaps between them. The interviews were a mix of behavioural and technical
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nuova Delhi) in Aug 2021
Interview
There were 3 rounds, all based on data structures and algorithms (interestingly no HR round). The problems were easy-medium. Although the last one required fair amount of knowledge of dynamic programming and bitmasking
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1-> Check if a string is a valid ip address (Easy)
Round 2-> The problem boiled down to finding if a graph is bi-partite.
Round 3-> Based on Dp+ bitmasking