I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2020
Interview
There was an intial onsite interview in San Francisco. It was fairly straight forward, a leetcode easy problem. The interviewer was not great, as they were on their phone for the majority of the interview. I then got flown out to Microsoft where I had a final round interview.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Saint Louis, MO) in Oct 2019
Interview
Was told the on-campus interview would be 30 minutes long, with mostly behavioral questions and some whiteboarding. Instead it was over an hour and was all whiteboarding, with leetcode medium questions
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Jan 2021
Interview
First round interview - had a call with a university recruiter about 30-40 minutes. Most questions were behavioral apart from one 'technical' that was fairly easy .
Interview was over skype and we spoke in English and I am mentioning that because I am not coming from a country with English as a main language.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given 9 rocks, 8 weigh the same one is a bit heavier. you need to detect which rock is the heavier one given that you can use a scale only two times