Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 3 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Espoo) en sep 2024
Entrevista
First contacted through an recruiter. They sent me three timeslots for the interview. Separate interviews with senior employees from different roles in the team. The length of each interview was 45min. Culture and behavioural questions.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Why are you interested in Microsoft? How this position will contribute to future career plans?
Stage 1: Take-Home Assessment – A 1-hour coding assignment consisting of two technical questions (one Easy and one Medium).
Stage 2: Virtual Interview Day – A Zoom-based interview day comprising three consecutive interviews.
Star method completely end to end with 3 interviews in the same day. It was online and then we were split into rooms. You mess up one and you mess up all
Maximum subarray questions+ oops + dbms. find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,