I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jul 2020
Interview
It's got initiated with a couple of calls from a technical recruiter, this was an opening for SAP GTS. During an interview, I had given almost all the answers correct, the interviewer was at the same designation for which I have been interviewing for, I realised the Question was not at the level I was expecting maybe the person who interviewing is not skilled up in the level he is supposed to take an interview and guess what he rejected me where I answered all most all answers right. I still wondering why I got rejected, just a suggestion to recruiting team don't put a panel of the same designation for which you are recruiting it creates a conflict of interest and maybe a bit of insecurity while taking the decision.
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.
