I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Informal phone call with the hiring manager. After they called, it was primarily behavioral questions, and then questions specific to research on my resume. Overall very straightforward and low pressure.
Casual interview. The interviewers are the mentors I will work with. First they asked me to do a brief self-introduction and then start technical questions. The questions are easy. Overall a happy experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard machine learning and statistics questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2019
Interview
The whole interview process is very relaxing, and the interviewers are very nice. They spent most of the time asking the details of your own research and propose their questions to ask you to explain. Then, they gave me a simple coding problem but ask me to solve the problem of overflow. I was not able to give the answer directly, but they gave me some hints to help me finish the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most are about your own research and one or two very easy coding problems.