J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en sept. 2015
Entretien
I was approached by email after attending a few career events and Microsoft competitions. The process before the interview was smooth, but the initial technical interview itself was pretty horrible. My interviewer was running 15 minutes late, which to him meant that my interview would have to be compressed down to 15 minutes. That meant no time for anything other than technical questions, i.e. nothing about my background or similar.
I solved the technical question in an okay way quite quickly, even though it wasn't the optimal solution. He then probed for a slightly better solution, and I produced a different solution. This was still not the one he was looking for though, and I needed a hint to be able to figure out what that was. Note that all three of these solutions were linear, so it was the space complexity he was after.
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It was a while ago, so I don't remember completely, but it was something fairly trivial using linked lists.
The interview was a long process. There was first the recruiter screen, which was followed by a 4-loop interview structure that covered technical, behavioral, and system design. The interviewers were very kind and accommodating.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft
Entretien
After my application to ClipChamp - Microsoft, a recruiter reached out and scheduled my first interview. It was about basic interview questions and background analysis. After that I had my technical interview. The recruiter specifically said that I would be facing medium hacker rank questions. So I prepared accordingly. However, what I actually got was to analyse an application and re work it according to new requirements. I felt like I was set up for failure on purpose. Didn’t even hear back after that interview.
Took a bit longer than I thought, spanning about three weeks from start to finish. After a quick recruiter screen, I had a technical round where I was asked about validating a binary search tree. The wild part is, I had literally seen this exact problem on prachub.com while prepping. It helped me feel more confident discussing my approach and edge cases. There was also a behavioral interview where I shared my experiences, and eventually, I received an offer. I chose to decline it, though, as it wasn't the right fit for me at the time.