Microsoft

Fairly straightforward interview. This was the first time I interviewed with Microsoft, so I was star-struck by the Microsoft people. They have this air of superiority that just oozes from every word they speak.

The whole hiring process took three weeks. Interviews are a pretty normal process, including: * Phone interviews * Screen interviews * Technical interviews * A lab interview with a review of what you did. Fun.

The person was not at all interested in the work that I did; they even belittled the projects I worked on. It seemed like they had come to a conclusion before conducting the interview. They asked me what I knew about recommendation systems (somethi