J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en oct. 2016
Entretien
Applied through a connection. Microsoft then came to my school and held interviews.
My interviewer was very cold, apathetic, and unhappy. She blazed through the behavioral portion of the interview and didn't really care much for what I had to say. She also only allowed me to ask ONE question at the end of the interview, despite not being short on time. She didn't even greet me with a smile as interviewers tend to do.
Personality aside, she asked me to "implement a queue with a stack interface," but she did not want me to use extra memory. I told her it wasn't possible, but she told me that a stack is just an array, and revealed that she wanted me to reverse the stack in place. This is a violation of the stack abstraction, so I was very unsure if she actually wanted me to do as she said.
In the end I didn't get an offer. She was one of the most unpleasant human beings I've ever encountered. She also was very unclear with what she expected out of me. I don't know why they would send her from Seattle to the east coast to interview when she clearly did not enjoy human interaction.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Implement a queue with a single stack, no extra memory
The interview was a long process. There was first the recruiter screen, which was followed by a 4-loop interview structure that covered technical, behavioral, and system design. The interviewers were very kind and accommodating.
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft
Entretien
After my application to ClipChamp - Microsoft, a recruiter reached out and scheduled my first interview. It was about basic interview questions and background analysis. After that I had my technical interview. The recruiter specifically said that I would be facing medium hacker rank questions. So I prepared accordingly. However, what I actually got was to analyse an application and re work it according to new requirements. I felt like I was set up for failure on purpose. Didn’t even hear back after that interview.
Took a bit longer than I thought, spanning about three weeks from start to finish. After a quick recruiter screen, I had a technical round where I was asked about validating a binary search tree. The wild part is, I had literally seen this exact problem on prachub.com while prepping. It helped me feel more confident discussing my approach and edge cases. There was also a behavioral interview where I shared my experiences, and eventually, I received an offer. I chose to decline it, though, as it wasn't the right fit for me at the time.