I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (São Paulo, ) in Jan 2023
Interview
There were three interviews on the same day for about 50 minutes and 10-minute break, the interview can usually be code interview or a system design interview, or if you are luck enough behavior.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The design question was easy but the interviewer always wanted more of it, the question was how to handle online and offline status on mobile devices but it is more complex than you imagine. The programming question was a binary tree in steroids because unless you mastered binary tree mechanics you would never be able to answer that, and the last question was something like Two Sum, or Three Sum, but mixed with String manipulation and conversion to integer back and forth.
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.
