I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2020
Interview
I attended the initial phone screen which I came to know I cleared after two weeks. Then they called me for one full day interview after two months. On interview day, I had seven back to back rounds of interviews. Almost everyone asked the same questions except the last managerial and first managerial round. All the interviewing panel carried the pride of the company brand and they clearly showed off that they are smarter by asking a lot of coding algorithms. It appeared that they never used those algorithms in their day to day tasks. And of course, all the interview panel were desi guys. Obviously, they acted over smart by showing their extra preparation for the interview. They do not even know the basic concept of giving breaks between interview rounds. In the end, the manager interview clearly showed that their work culture is bureaucratic. They don't like someone who asks too many questions.
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Positive experience
Difficult interview
Application
I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.