I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sept 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.
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.
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.
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