I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Raleigh, NC) in Jul 2016
Interview
First step was an interview with the group manager, informal meet and greet type of thing.
Second step was a tech screen consisting of some basic "fit" questions and a code test on data structures and algorithms.
Third step would be the in person round.
These guys are very bright and professional, it was a great overall experience.
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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