University recruitment. Microsoft came and gave an information session and also came to our career fair at UCSB. They took resumes and then emailed invitations to be interviewed on campus. An optional question and answer section was held the night before for all the interviewees and the interviewers. It was one 30 minute interview.

It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.