How to Get a Job at MicrosoftAbout this guide
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- They have a massive presence around the country with a variety of different roles
- On-site interviews seem lengthy but feedback is generally positive
- Compensation is on the high end of average compared to similar companies
- Microsoft covers travel and accommodation expenses for the onsite interview
InterviewInterview Process
Data
Design
PSO
SWE
The average time to finish the entire interview process for a data scientist position at Microsoft is 2-4 weeks.
- Stage 1: Phone screen
The recruiter reviews the candidate's resume, research experience, past projects, and knowledge of machine learning & Python. - Stage 2: Code test
The interviewer sends a link to an interactive coding page and asks the candidate to write R code to solve the coding question. - Stage 3: Full day onsite interview
Onsite there are a series of interviews that last all day, including a lunch interview. There are back-to-back algorithm interviews. The questions are statistical, inference questions, math modeling questions, managing questions, coding questions etc.
InterviewInterview Questions
Data
Design
PSO
SWE
- Q 1: The difference between lasso, ridge; introduce some dimension reduction technique
- Q 2: How to explain a deep learning model to customers?
- Q 3: How to explain p-value to customers.
- Q 4: Basic stats and machine learning questions.
- Q 5: Given a time series dataset, how would you predict the future value?
- Q 6: Replace empty cells with the median
- Q 7: What is the ROC curve and the meaning of sensitivity, specificity, confusion matrix
- Q 8: Generate a fair coin from a biased one.
- Q 9: Generate 7 integers with equal probability from a function which returns 1/0 with probability p and (1-p).
- Q 10: Tell me about your most recent project + questions
- Q 11: Find the maximum of sub sequence in an integer list.
- Q 12: Knowledge of A/B testing
- Q 13: Random-forest and lasso
- Q 14: Code a problem in Python, C++ / C#, R, SQL, Hadoop
- Q 15: Lots of statistics, probability, math, computer science, and database related questions.
- Q 16: How to builds ads model, basic algorithms.
- Q 17: Three friends in Seattle told you it's raining. Each has a 1/3 probability of lying. What's the probability that Seattle is raining?
- Q 18: Can you explain the Naive Bayes fundamentals? How did you set the threshold?
- Q 19: Can you explain what MapReduce is and how it works?
- Q 20: How do you detect if a new observation is an outlier? What is bias-variance trade off?
- Q 21: Can you explain SVM to me?
- Q 22: Perform a series of calculations without a calculator and provide your logic behind the steps.
- Q 23: Discuss how to randomly select a sample from a product user population.
- Q 24: How do you implement autocomplete?
- Q 25: Do you know l1 norm or l0 norm
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Come to Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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To help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
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- Redmond: One Microsoft Way
- Bayrut: Minet El Hosn
- Tallinn: Akadeemia tee 15b
- Hoàn Kiếm: Tầng 16, Tòa nhà Capital Tower, 109
- Caracas: Av. Principal de La Castellana Centro Letonia Torre ING Bank, Piso 8
- Montevideo: Mercosur Business Center Cebollati 1474 - Piso 5
- Kyiv: Бізнес-центр “Євразія” вул. Жилянська 75
- İstanbul: Bellevue Residences, Levent Mahallesi Aydın Sokak No:7, Levent
- Tunis: Résidence Tanol rue du Lac Huron Les Berges du Lac
- Khwaeng Lumphini: 87 Wireless Rd
- Xinyi District: 18 68 Section 5, Zhongxiao East Road
- Wallisellen: 3 Richtistrasse
- Stockholm: Kista
- Colombo: DHPL Building, 11th Floor, No.42, Navam Mawatha
- Pozuelo de Alarcón: 1 Paseo de la FincaPaseo del Club Deportivo, 1 Centro Empresarial La Finca - Edificio 1
- Bratislava: Apollo Business Center II, blok E Prievozská 4D
- Novi Beograd: Španskih boraca 3 / III
- București: Piața Presei Libere nr. 3-5 Clădirea City Gate, Turnul de Sud, Etaj 2 Bucureşti, Sector 1
- Guaynabo: City View Plaza I Suite 107 #48 State Road 165 Km 1.2 Guaynabo
- Lisboa: Rua do Fogo de Santelmo, Lote 2.07.02
- Warszawa: Al. Jerozolimskie 195a
- Makati: 8th Floor, 6750 Ayala Office Tower 6750 Ayala Avenue
- Lima: Av. Víctor Andrés Belaunde 147 Vía Principal 123. Torre Real 1, Piso 3 Centro Empresarial San Isidro,
- Asunción: Av. Mcal. Lopez 3795 c/ Cruz del Chaco Edificio Citicenter – Piso 6
- Panamá: Calle 50 y Ave. Nicanor de Obarrio, Plaza Credicorp Bank, Piso 23 Apartado
- Islamabad: 1st Floor, Plot # 14-E, The HIVE Manzoor Plaza, Fazal-e-Haq Road,
- Sentrum: Torggata 2-4-6
- Bærum: 45 Lysaker Torg
- Johannesburg: 3012 William Nicol Drive Bryanston
- Schiphol: Evert van de Beekstraat 354
- Podgorica: Kralja Nikole 27a/IV BC Čelebić
- Chișinău: str. Vlaicu Pîrcălab 63 Office 6B
- Ciudad de México: 1700 Vasco de QuirogaAv. Vasco de Quiroga 1700 Piso 7 Col. Centro de Ciudad Santa Fe Del Álvaro Obregón
- Luqa: SkyParks Business Centre, Level 5 Malta International Airport Luqa,
- Kuala Lumpur: Level 17 & 18, Menara Shell No. 211, Jalan Tun Sambanthan
- Skopje: Blvd. Kiril I Metodij, No.7, floor1
- Lëtzebuerg: 23-29 Rives de Clausen
- Vilnius: Verslo centras „Baltic Hearts“, A pastatas Ukmergės g. 120
- Tarabulus: Al -Shat Rd
- Rivonia: 3012 William Nicol Drive Bryanston Johannesburg 2191
- Rīga: 1 Zaļā iela
- Kingston: Pan Caribbean Building Tenth Floor 60 Knutsford Boulevard
- Milano: 21 Viale Pasubio
- Ra'anana: 2 HaPnina St
- Wokingham: Thames Valley Park Reading Berkshire
- Leopardstown: 1 One Microsoft Place South County Business Park
- Jakarta: Jakarta Stock Exchange Building Tower II, lantai 18 Sudirman Central Business District Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 52-53
- Budapest: Graphisoft Park 3. (Záhony u.)
- Hong Kong: 15/F, Cyberport 2, 100 Cyberport Road
- Tegucigalpa: Honduras Business Center Torre Nova piso 8 Parque Comercial Los Próceres
- Guatemala: Diagonal 6 10-50 zona 10 Torre Norte, Nivel 11 Edificio Interaméricas, World Financial Center.
- Marousi: 221 Leof. Kifisias
- Lagos: 6th Floor, Civic Towers Ozumba Mbadiwe Road, beside Caverton Helicopters Victoria Island
- München: 5 Walter-Gropius-Straße
- Issy-les-Moulineaux: 39 Quai du Président Roosevelt
- Espoo: 2 Keilalahdentie
- San Salvador: 89 Ave. Norte Edificio World Trade Center Torre 2 Nivel 5, Col. Escalón
- Cairo: Smart Village Kilo 28, Cairo/Alex Desert Road Abou Rawash
- Quito: Av. Naciones Unidas 1014 y Av. Amazonas (esquina) Edif. La Previsora Torre A, Of
- Santo Domingo: Ave. Winston Churchill #83 Torre Blue Mall , Piso 25
- Kongens Lyngby: 7 Kanalvej
- Praha 4: 1561/4a Vyskočilova
- Nicosia: 11 Limassol Avenue, Galatariotis Building 1st Floor
- Escazú: Oficentro Plaza Roble Edificio El Patio, Piso 2.
- Bogotá: Calle 92 # 11 – 51 Piso 10
- Haidian Qu: 5 Danling St
- Santiago: Av. Vitacura 6844 , Vitacura
- Port Louis: 7th floor Dias Pier Building La Caudan Waterfront
- Mississauga: 1950 Meadowvale Blvd
- Nairobi: 8th Floor, The Oval Building Ring Road, Westlands
- Sofia: 55 bul. "Nikola Y. Vaptsarov"
- Bandar Seri Begawan: 13-1, PGGMB Building Jalan Kianggeh
- Brooklin Novo: Av. Nações Unidas, 12.901 Torre Norte 27º andar
- Casablanca: Twin Center Tour A - 15ème étage Bd Zerktouni
- Zagreb: Horvatova 82/6
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Av. San Martin y 4to Anillo Norte Edificio Torreo Duo, Piso 19, Of C.
- Gurugram: 10th Floor, Tower B & C, DLF Building No.5 (Epitome), Cyber City, DLF Phase III
- Abidjan: Immeuble Karrath – 4ème étage 31, Avenue Noguès Plateau
- Dhaka: Laila Tower, 4th Floor 8 Gulshan Avenue, Gulshan - 1
- Dubai: Dubai Internet City Building No 8 Sheikh Zayed Road
- Bakı: 69 Nizami Street
- North Ryde: 1 Epping Rd
- Singapore: 1 Marina Boulevard #22-01 One Marina Boulevard
- Moskva: 17 Krylatskaya Ulitsa
- San Nicolas: 710 Bouchard
- Port of Spain: 61 Mucurapo Rd
- Luanda: Condominio Bengo /2nd floor Street- Fernao de Sousa
- Wellington: Level 12 Vodafone on The Park 157 Lambton Quay
- Auckland: Level 5 22 Viaduct Harbour Ave
- Algiers: Algeria Business Center Pins Maritimes
- Tirana: St. Abdyl Frasheri P. 11/1 EGT Tower, 2nd Floor 1000
- Beirut: Minet El Hosn
- Wien: 3 Am Europl.