I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Dec 2021
Interview
Interview started from the basics of neural nets and became more focused on project specific and background specific topics (My background is NLP). Differences between L1 and L2 regression, etc were asked.
It was good, some algorithms questions about graphs traversal. The interview was good but I was unprepared, otherwise, with minimal preparation you could pass 2 to 3 first interviews, and interviewer was nice and accomodating.
Standard machine learning questions. They wanted to make sure I really understood the topics. All questions were fair and good questions. They asked me to describe a research paper and walk through it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a recent research paper you found interesting.
The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Cairo, Cairo Governorate) in Aug 2022
Interview
The interview process was good, and the interviewers were nice and understanding. I had 4 interviews and the last one was with my team manager. Overall, very good experience and professional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design chat system assuming we have previous data.
Machine Learning Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Drug test: 8%
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