I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2018
Interview
I had a great experience throughout the entire process.
I first contacted them when they came to my University. I then had a 30 minute on campus interview with one of their engineers. A week later I was notified that I was to be flown out to Redmond, WA for the final round of interviews. Microsoft paid for all hotels, flights, food, and taxi/uber! The final round consisted of four 45 minute interviews. Interviews were based on data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design. I was then notified about the results a week later.
Microsoft treated me great and made sure everything I needed was accommodated for.
A leetcode style test with three problems, then three interviews with different managers ( for each it was a coding problem and behavioral questions). Each interview was 1 hour long
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do I react and handle a conflict situation at work
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.