Online Assessment

Microsoft Data Scientist interview: timed HackerRank assessment

MicrosoftData Scientist · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

Most of my process was a timed online technical assessment. It had several HackerRank-style questions and a predefined window of around an hour to finish everything. There was little conversational interviewing beyond that. It felt like a fast evaluation of technical problem solving, with very little room to recover from a missed question. I did not receive an offer. The straightforward but tough…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.