Candidatei-me por indicação de um funcionário. O processo levou 4 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) em out. de 2011
Entrevista
Phone screens to establish initial contact, basic fit for a particular team.
Travel, 5 in-person interviews, mainly coding, design discussion, and general CS knowledge over the course of a day including lunch.
Final travel to meet 2 more people later.
Then several weeks of background checks, final offer.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
One interesting interview was a "find out how much you know very quickly" interview.
Questions included:
- What's a hash function?
- How can it be used as part of a dictionary?
- If you're designing a hash function for a class that will be used as part of a dictionary lookup, what things should you consider?
- Sketch an design for a tree-like data structure, and then an algorithm for depth-first search.
- What are precision and recall? How are they defined? Why are they defined this way not some other way? (Note: the position I was applying for was on a data / machine learning project, so this certainly wasn't an overspecialized question.)
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Microsoft (Vancouver, BC).
Entrevista
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
Candidatei-me online. Fui entrevistado pela Microsoft (Bengaluru) em jun. de 2026
Entrevista
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.