Microsoft

Difficult multi-stage interviews are expected. Code in front of the interviewer and speak out your thought process. Clean and efficient code is a must. Questions on optimization and efficiency come up a lot.

On-campus interview through school job board. This was 30 minutes long, and I was invited to set up a final round on-site that evening. The on-site interview happened 1-2 weeks later in Redmond, Washington. There were four 45-minute interviews with

1:1 round, asked about: a. Any projects where you have hard deadlines. b. What do you want to work on: compilers, OS, or applications. c. Then he passed me a paper and told me to code the solution for a question in any language of my choice.