On-Campus Screening Interview

Before I go into detail about the interview, I want to say that I may not be good enough for Microsoft, and I am totally OK with that. I am not OK with not being given a fair shot and being rushed through an important interview. I can't say if a different situation would have changed my outcome, but that doesn't change the fact that this interview was horrible and left a very bad taste in my mouth for Microsoft.

My interviewer was over a half-hour late. Then his stomach was rumbling obnoxiously loud throughout the whole interview. It was incredibly awkward, and I felt like my entire interview was rushed.

The question was pretty weird too and was not an algorithms question. I felt like he was just zooming to get to lunch.

He stopped me after I worked through most of the question so I could ask him questions, as he said it was important that I had time for them. But before I asked him questions, he proceeded to explain how hungry he was, how he was missing lunch, and that they were way behind schedule.

I literally asked one question and told him that was all I had. Given that you just professed your hunger to me and I could hear your stomach rumbling like crazy, why would I continue to ask questions?

This was the weirdest and most unprofessional interview of my whole interview season.

It was a dumb Java event handling question. It had nothing to do with algorithms. Pretty weird question.