I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2021
Interview
It was an on campus opportunity, So we were provided Job ID from Microsoft and were askes to apply on career portal of MS for CGPA > 7.5 and then date for our OA was decided:
It was a test of total 80 minutes with 2 problem.
Both the questions were of grid type and difficulty lying between medium to hard.
I was able to solve only 1 problem so my name didn,t came in list of 40 students shortlisted for interview round.
This was my first opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A 2d grid containing some obstacle and some gaurds each facing some direction and protecting entire row/column in front of them, Now a assassin is standing somewhere in the grid and want to reach end of the grid without being caught by gaurds and also he can not move on cell with obstacle or cells gaurded by gaurd or out of grid, We just need to return boolean value (0/1). He can only move in 4 adjacent cell in one move.
The process was brief and strait forward. They asked a few questions about the resume presented and then wanted a coding problem solved. Overall it took 30 minutes and I was notified within two weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you think you are a good fit for the company?
Was mostly DSA. Interviewer friendly. We discussed my resume, relevant projects I had done first, Asked me about Javascript CSS HTML, how I learnt React. basics of DSA- complexity, some basic array problems.HR round interview was nice, friendly