I was contacted by a Microsoft recruiter through my LinkedIn profile. I received a screening form with questions about my personality and experience, followed by four programming assignments, of which two had to be solved. Upon successfully completing the screening, I was invited to the Microsoft Campus.

I arrived on time, but the person who was supposed to interview me was home sick, and they did not arrange a replacement. Moreover, when they found a replacement, he spent time looking for a meeting room for the interview because the booked room was apparently the game room, where we eventually had to conduct the interview. Furthermore, while I was solving a question on the whiteboard, he was busy with his phone, which is, in my view, unprofessional.

The second interview also took place in the game room, and I did not make it to the third interview.

My overall feedback from this interview experience: The HR and recruiter specialists were very professional and respectful; however, the technical interviewer team were not as professional as they should have been in their behavior.

1. What is the project you are currently working on, and how do you design the change?

2. Binary tree functions.

3. Write a method to convert a string to an integer without using MS APIs.