I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2019
Interview
Reached out to by a recruiter on LinkedIn, who set up a first round interview with a Microsoft Engineer coming to my college. Interview was kind of wacky, and he didn't ask me questions, I had to bring up my experiences on my own. A couple weeks later got flown out to their Seattle campus for a tour and 2 back to back hybrid technical/behavioral interviews. Coding portion was very manageable. Had a deadline coming up, so they got me a decision in only 3 days. Overall a good experience and had a lot of fun exploring Seattle for a day!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you faced a difficult technical challenge and how you overcame it
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Dec 2020
Interview
The interview was in 2 parts:
1. Coding test at home in Codility-contains 3 questions in intro computer science style. 1 easy question and 2 hard questions
2. personal interview through skype in English
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. describe the difficulties you had in a project
2. describe recursion to a kid
No coding challenge. Had to do two technical questions back to back, one on binary trees and how to create and check for balance, and another on reversing a sentence string. the second was straight from leetcode