I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
I had a good ranking in the Microsoft College Code Competition and got the interview. Microsoft's recruiting is really slow. They gave me the interview very late, and now it has been 3 weeks since the interview, I haven't heard a thing from them. I may choose other company at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to introduce my pertinent experiences. After that there was a very easy coding question. Give you an array, find the two numbers that are closest to each other. Return the smallest pair if there are more than one solutions.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
It was a great experience, the interviewer was really nice. Being the first interview I have had in a while, I was tripped up with the question. But, the interviewer gave timely hints and the process moved along smoothly and nicely! I would interview with Microsoft again!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sorting Question? I don't quite remember. But it was very similar to merge sort.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2015
Interview
Got the first round of interview through campus recruiting. Heard from them less than a week telling me that I was selected to an on-site. 3 weeks later, an interview scheduler contacted me and settled me with a detailed schedule quickly. During the final interview, I stayed on the main campus a whole day (from 10am to 4pm) interviewing with 4 different people from the team. All of them were nice and challenged my solution in a good way. The recruiter was also very nice. He gave me the offer on next day's morning and explained in so much detail about the compensation, which made me really excited. I accepted the offer right away.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was the most interesting/challenging bug that you fixed? Describe the process.