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      Research Scientist Intern Interview

      18 Sept 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Redmond, WA

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      Research Scientist Intern Interview

      17 Jun 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Mar 2024

      Interview

      Two interviews: one research brainstorm to discuss how I would design experiments for a company project, and discussing my research style (how do I keep track of experiments and results) + a second interview debugging and answering questions about a PyTorch training loop.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why do we need to call optim.zero_grad()?
      Answer question

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2023

      Interview

      The first thing was to talk about the recent projects I've been working on and ask a few in-depth questions. Then they introduced the recent projects they were working on and the direction they wanted to go.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Share a few of the projects you've been working on?
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      Research Scientist Intern Interview

      19 Oct 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2022

      Interview

      There are 2 Rounds of phone interviews in total during the interview process. Asked questions about past research experience and one coding. The coding interview is not about leetcode but implementation of common ML functions

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Write a softmax function and analysis when the input is extreme large. What will be the issue and how to avoid the issue
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