This was for the HoloLens team.

I got the job via a headhunter from the Seattle area, from the company "Experis IT".

He managed to screw up the whole interview with the project lead of the HoloLens team at Microsoft.

Microsoft constantly uses third-party recruiting agencies to find candidates. These agencies will only consider Canadian citizens and will not sponsor you for any visa if you require one.

The interview process started with a phone call. As an international candidate from Vancouver, I then traveled to Seattle for the second, in-person round. Neither the recruiting agency nor Microsoft paid for my travel to this interview, which included a whiteboard question (details below).

The interviewers were in a hurry and didn't seem to be fully aware of my scheduled interview. I was left waiting in the lobby for 1 hour and 15 minutes without food or water, as I was merely an interviewee.

I had traveled by train from Vancouver, Canada, to Seattle for a 1-hour whiteboard test, which Microsoft was strict about. In total, I traveled 17 hours for a 1-hour interview with Microsoft, and it was a horrible experience.

I advise anyone going to such interviews from Canada to the US to ask the original headhunting agencies for all details, such as:

1. How many rounds will the interview consist of.
2. How much commission will be deducted from your salary (yes, commission is taken from the employee's salary on a monthly basis).
3. You are likely to be underpaid compared to what typical US citizens receive.
4. If it's a contract-to-hire position, it's a risk. What can the recruiting agency do to resolve visa issues?
5. Search "W2-Payroll".

Hope this helps. This was a game development or related position using a game engine.

Check whether a chess piece can move from square A to square B. The function should return True or False if the move is possible.

Test cases can range from Pawn to Bishop, or any other piece. You have to know or calculate how a piece would travel, intersect a path, and potentially capture an opponent's piece between A and B.