I handed my resume to an on-campus recruiter. A few days later, I got an email asking me to sign up for an interview slot on campus. I had an interview a few weeks later with a PM from the Mountain View campus. She recommended me for a SDE internship, and about 2 weeks after that interview I was notified that I would be flown to Redmond for final rounds. They changed the location to Mountain View, CA a few weeks later. I flew over, stayed over two nights, and on the second day, had my interview. There were four rounds, based in C++ (my most familiar language was Java). The last round was with a high-up manager who talked about Microsoft's goals and future direction. I heard less than 24 hours after my last interview through email that I got a position as a summer intern. Whole process was ~2 months because of my busy finals period and trying to schedule a time to fly over to California.

It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.