J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Champaign, IL) en oct. 2025
Entretien
Interviewer was prompt, interested and engaged. The interview covered a variety of topics, and seemed more geared towards learning about how a candidate thinks rather than testing specific knowledge. One should be prepared for both specific technical questions and questions designed to reveal your thought process.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
How can you convince me that a number is irrational?
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft
Entretien
The interview process started with a short 30-minute introductory interview, where we mainly discussed my previous experience, background, and motivation for the role. After that, I had three interviews in one day. One interview focused more on my previous projects and experience, while the other two were more technical and focused on machine learning theory, practical ML problem-solving, and model selection. The interviewers were very nice, professional, and the atmosphere was comfortable throughout the process.
Questions d'entretien [2]
Question 1
Describe how you would build a model that recognizes whether a person is wearing glasses in a photo.
Two rounds of interview, both technical, in both rounds I was asked about my projects and very deep insights related to those, also the questions were very practical based ml questions, i was asked to do live coding also in both the rounds
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en mars 2026
Entretien
3 interviews. One ML breadth mostly focused on Transformers. What are hallucinations, and how to avoid them, what is catastrophic forgetting, and similar questions. Another manager round with some HR questions, like sharing past learning experiences, was also asked about an open-ended ML system design for next-word prediction in an app. Third was the coding round, where they asked me to find an accurate threshold for classifying using a really bad classifier. The answer should be the F1 score, and I was supposed to code it up live.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What are hallucinations, and how to avoid them, what is catastrophic forgetting, and similar questions. Another manager round with some HR questions, like sharing past learning experiences, was also asked about an open-ended ML system design for next-word prediction in an app. Third was the coding round, where they asked me to find an accurate threshold for classifying using a really bad classifier. The answer should be the F1 score, and I was supposed to code it up live.