I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Apr 2021
Interview
I applied for this position at Microsoft, and later received an email from a recruiter that asked me to fill out a form for them. The form was clearly made for recruiters, not for recruitees, to see, as it contained information such as "Ask them this" or "ask them if they have done that". It seemed that the recruiter had to schedule a call to ask me those questions, but instead they found it OK to simply send me the form and let me fill it myself...
Alright, I did that and they responded me a few days later asking for a suitable time for an interview. We choose a suitable time for both and scheduled the interview. However, on the scheduled time, I had an unexpected issue that prevented me from going. I sent an email to the recruiter telling them that. I did not receive any email from the recruiter after this, ever, even after trying to contact them multiple times.
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.
