I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2023
Interview
Recruiter reached out after wasn't taken for previous role. Quick chat and call with hiring manager, previous interviews could be leveraged again so only one lightweight follow up technical interview done. As there was another offer on the table the process was speed up as much as possible.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Default star questions like "describe difficult situations etc", apart from that small system design questions.
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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