I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2020
Interview
The interview process was pretty straight-forward. Mine was a bit unique as a recruiter reached out to me personally on LinkedIn. I sent him my resume as well as a confirmation that I had applied for the job. Pretty soon, I had a phone screen, and then went directly to a final round interview a couple months later.
Job and role based questions. A conversation with the team and hiring manager. I appreciated highly that there was a chance to talk with the team. That experience brought a lots of insight about the role and gave me also an opportunity to better evaluate if I am a good fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They presented different scenarios of potential customer cases and I was expected to walk them through how would I solve the situation.
[Screen call] it was held virtually, talked with a customer success account manager even though it was a screen call. The conversation was conversational and good, but felt the questions were a bit hard to give example in STAR format
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY)
Interview
Interview with the internal Microsoft recruiting team, which put me on a approved list to interview once a appropriate role opened up. Four months later I went through a virtual panel interview; three 45 minute interviews with 15 minute break in between. Interviews were with 1 Sr. CSAM and 2 CSAM Directors. Very conversational with behavioral questions. Currently waiting to hear back from the recruiting team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was your biggest career success/ failure?
Tell me about technical conversations you have with customers?
Tell me about a time when you ran into a problem that no one else had delt with before?