I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Cambridge, MA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I declined their offer because I would not want to work in this office. The interviewers were stone-faced and not interested in expanding their team. I even went to the bathroom between interviews and overheard two interviewers talking badly about another candidate there. This is very unprofessional and sets a bias against the candidate.
The interview process was an easy technical phone screen followed by an on-site interview. The on-site was four separate 45-min interviews with a 15-min break between. Three of the four were coding questions and the last was a conversation with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode type problems related to multi-threading.
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
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