I applied online and passed an online coding test, which included normal coding interview questions. After that, I took an online personality test called SLA.

Subsequently, I had an onsite interview at the Microsoft Shanghai Campus. There were three technical interviews. The last two interviewers were very nice, while the first interviewer was anxious and arrogant. I performed poorly in the first interview but did well in the next two.

There are 3 onsite technical interviews. All of them start with a 5-minute self-introduction and a discussion of your most favorite project as a warm-up.

Technical questions for each round:

1. How to detect whether two given linked lists have common parts.
2. Anagrams, extended to deal with large-scale cases.
3. Search for words in a random character matrix, similar to a Gluttonous Snake game, given a dictionary of legal words for matching. Analyze the time complexity.