I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2021
Interview
Recruiter sent me a wrong link (i got referral from an old coworker) and the schedule got delayed. Later we found out that the recruiter was using the wrong job. Finally got the interview scheduled. Last minute it was split into 2 days. The last interviewer didn't introduce himself and asked me for my experience. In between he asked why i am working now. The recruiter told to expect 2 rounds of coding and i got 4 rounds of coding. After that I never heard back from them. No email or phone call. It is a very weird experience.
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.
