I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Interview was pretty standard, virtual interview on Microsoft Teams with an engineer. Coding part asked for 3 leet code hard questions within like 40 mins (total 1h) which was very difficult
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024
Interview
Firstly, introduce myself. Secondly, explaining common ML and DL concepts like QKV attention, dropout, SFT, RLHF. Thirdly, ask for my past AI research experience. Last, share understanding about an academic paper that is provided before the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how do you think of paper: Monte Carlo Tree Search Boosts Reasoning via Iterative Preference Learning