I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2020
Interview
Applied online no referral. First round was a phone interview. Was told to expect a mix of technical and behavioral questions. The interviewer was very pleasant and friendly. Was notified of final round invitation a week later.
Final round came around and the coldness of the interviewers caught me off guard. The first interviewer was late and did not introduce himself to me. He could not figure out how to share his codility link with me. I had to answer all of his questions verbally without sharing any screen. The second final round interviewer talked about himself and then my resume and questions about myself for the first 80% of what was supposed to be a technical interview. At the end he only allowed me around 5 minutes to work on the technical problem through codility. I verbally solved it and said what I would do if I had more time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Microsoft?
Return the smallest integer in a circularly sorted array.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2018
Interview
One on-campus(college) interview and two in person interviews at Microsoft. The interviewers were nice and knowledgeable, and the process went smoothly. Recruiter was communicative and they got back to me quickly.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Mumbai) in Jul 2020
Interview
Was smooth and the interviewers were really polite. There were 3 rounds - the first two being Tech Rounds followed by an HR Round. Each round lasted about 45 mins. The tech round involved questions from algorithms and databases and the difficulty was from medium to hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question regarding System Design was asked and a question on Backtracking ( N - Queens Problem)