I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2017
Interview
Phone Interview followed by 5 back-to-back on-site interviews with the Universal Store team in Redmond, WA. Very professional in the arrangements made for my on-site interview, and the results were communicated the very next day.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Create an n-ary tree from a set of relationship tuples. For ex: "is a" relationships like
Dog is a mammal
Labrador is a dog
Husky is a dog
HumanBeing is a mammal
Sparrow is a bird
Mammal is an animal
Bird is an animal
BanyanTree is a tree
and so on.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
45 mins technical interview with a member of their San fran team. Very relaxed and informal but questions were focused and lots of follow ups. Easy to schedule as was over video conferencing platform
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.