I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2021
Interview
There were 3 rounds. All rounds involved DSA problems. The first two rounds involved 2 standard DSA problems each. Going through the questions asked in the past helps greatly. The final round involved a review on my resume and one DSA problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked List questions. Standard Data structures like heaps and hash tables. There was some focus on my internship that I had done in the past. Mostly Machine learning related.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Austin, TX) in Sep 2020
Interview
Behavior phone screen. Simple 30 minute conversation regarding past projects and why I am pursuing software engineering. Was also asked about why I wanted to work at Microsoft and my favorite Microsoft product. The interview wasn't very technical was the exception of a few questions related to CS fundamentals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time in your life when you had to overcome an obstacle?
I was flown out to their headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. They paid for all travel expenses, accommodation (2 nights in a 4-star hotel) and food. The interview consisted of 5 rounds, each taking 45 minutes. Every interviewer covered a different topic. All questions could be found on leetcode type of websites, other than a single question that was system design. Overall, I did not prepare well enough, but after a couple of days of leetcode, and covering some design principles and I don't think anyone coming from a University should have a problem. You can use any language you want, and the programming is on a whiteboard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please design classes that can represent a software used in audio and video editing. It can combine multiple audio tracks, and has a single video.