A recruiter visited my university (located outside the USA) and gave a talk about the benefits of working at their company and related topics. At the end of the presentation, he provided his email address, encouraging us to send him our resumes.

After waiting for two weeks, he sent me an email informing me that I had been selected for an interview.

The interview was a little awkward. He was very quiet, and when I asked questions about the problems, he responded with short sentences. He began by asking non-technical questions. Afterward, I had approximately 45 minutes to solve programming questions on paper.

Non-technical:

• Why did I choose to work at Microsoft?
• Why should they choose me?
• What has been my most challenging project?
• And how was my English?

Technical:

Most of the questions consisted of problems related to Strings in the language I listed as my main on the resume. I remember two questions (sorry for not remembering more):

• Make a method which receives a String and returns its reversed version.
• Find the longest palindrome in a sentence.