I really enjoyed interviewing for the Explore Microsoft Internship. The process took about three months.

First, I dropped off my resume at the Computer Science Career Fair at my university and was contacted a few weeks later to do a quick phone interview. The phone interview was mostly behavioral and not too difficult.

A few weeks after the phone interview, I was contacted to do an onsite interview at Microsoft in Redmond.

The trip to Washington took three days, and Microsoft paid for absolutely everything: my flight, my hotel, my taxi rides, a generous meal budget, and a tourism stipend.

The first day was primarily travel, followed by an informal dinner on campus with other interview candidates.

The second day, I was scheduled to interview in the afternoon after lunch. I did three interviews in three hours:

• The first was technical (coding on the whiteboard).
• The second was a mix of technical and behavioral.
• The third was behavioral.

I heard from other candidates that the type of interviews and questions asked varied a lot.

On the third day, I had a little time to tour Seattle before I took a flight home.

A week after the interview, a recruiter called and offered me an internship. Their offer was quite generous, and I was happy to accept.

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