I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliyya B) in Aug 2019
Interview
The interview process contained 1 phone call interview, 3 technical interviews, 1 HR interview and 1 director interview. The staff was very nice, overall experience was nice. altough the process is pretty long
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an char array. write a function that 'collapse' the array and send it back. e.g: for a given array 'abccdeefaassf' return abcdefasf' this can be done in O(n).
Given a square matrix, that represents battleship board, Find all the ships that appears in the board. The ships can be horizontal or vertical. There cant be 2 ships that are next to each other (they r seperated by 1 cell atleast from each direction). this can be done in O(n^2)
Was a typical first round recruiter screen - pretty straightforward but didn't end up getting moved vforwards. Prompt, Professional and overall a good experience. They asked me about my background, explained the role and it was with the recruitment team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your background going into detial in each role
Expect a lengthy hiring process that can take at least two months from start to finish. In my experience, there was approximately one month of interviews followed by another month waiting for the final decision. Be prepared for a slow timeline, especially after completing all interview stages.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where have above and beyond for a customer
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.