I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2021
Interview
The usual 4 rounds of interview. 2 Coding, 1 Software design, 1 system design and behavioral. Behavioral one also close to technical one. The process took nearly 3 weeks. I asked 2 weeks for preparation after the screening. I requested interviews every other day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cant share exact questions here. But for coding you need to know about graphs, specially bfs and dfs and applying they wisely. For Software and System design you should know the basics, but just search in youtube. You will find enough resource.
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.
