Applied online with no referral.

First round was a phone interview. I was told to expect a mix of technical and behavioral questions. The interviewer was very pleasant and friendly. I was notified of a final round invitation a week later.

The final round came around, and the coldness of the interviewers caught me off guard. The first interviewer was late and did not introduce himself. He could not figure out how to share his Codility link with me, so I had to answer all of his questions verbally without screen sharing. The second final round interviewer talked about himself and my resume, with questions about myself, for the first 80% of what was supposed to be a technical interview. At the end, he only allowed me around 5 minutes to work on the technical problem through Codility. I verbally solved it and explained what I would do if I had more time.

Why Microsoft?

Return the smallest integer in a circularly sorted array.