Microsoft has a very bad Online Technological Screening
Recently completed an online tech screening with MSFT. They want us to write code for problems. But the tool provided is so basic that it's just a basic text box. It was hard to write a good looking and understandable code in that text area especially with multiple problems to solve and with a time constarint. Why can't Microsoft provide a good online coding tool like hacker rank? It's very surprising that big company like MSFT not so serious about their hiring process. Anyone had a similar experience?
I actually prefer just a text editor
Not so good when you need to solve multiple problems with time constraint.
Maybe they do this to filter out people who lean too much on their ide
Wtf? IDEs are great
Lol we are not is 90s.
I write in a text editor a lot of the time anyways. So I didn’t mind. I’m interviewing with a lot of MS teams and have passed 4/5 phone screens so far. But if you’re not used it then you definitely need to practice beforehand. And yes, this is inconvenient. But I’m personally not really affected, and don’t see other options as any better
Did u do this online tech screen for all 5 phone screens? Writing code on text editor in phone interview with a person is very different from the online coding challenge involving more than 2 coding problems in 60 mins.
What are they using these days? Still collabedit?
Just a text editor, like google shared docs.
Google uses Google Docs for their interviews, too. Are they not serious about their hiring process either?
I took their online test as well. I feel it is perfect. May be they can allow tabs.
Is this for the platform AI teams hiring event?
Yes
Cool, did you clear it?