I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
started with an intro, then was asked a basic few questions about the resume and then was asked to solve a leetcode problem. it was a medium problem on dynamic programming on strings.
Difficult interview
Application
I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
So, first of all I was asked about my introduction, and what are my interests. Then my technical interview began with one question of Arrays, it was a medium level question. First, I had to think about the brute approach and then think about how to optimize it. My interviewer expected me to write an end to end code, it varies depending upon the interviewer. After writing the code it was time to review and run the code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Merge Interval (Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], merge all overlapping intervals, and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals that cover all the intervals in the input.)
3 back-to-back 45 mins interviews. Interviewers were very nice and it’s important to master behaviorals. I was asked some product sense questions too as I applied for a product manager role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Microsoft? When was the time you faced a challenge and how did you overcome?
first round was resume shortlist, didn't even shortlist profile for 2nd round, no interview furthermore. I have an excellent resume. They shortlisted half of the students for the next round