The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Pune) in Feb 2019
Interview
I was contacted by HR through instahyre. It was for HYD location, they came to Pune for the interview. First round – a guy, which looked pretty junior to me, asked pretty basic question on java class modelling.
Having 12 + years of experience in java , I did it with no effort. No algo or design questions were asked. That was the only question and then I was asked to leave , no further round. I asked HR what happened, HD denied giving any specific reason, however asked for feedback of guy who took the interview ( HR repeatedly requested the feedback, got the feeling that there was something wrong with that guy , HR themselves were not happy )
This was for Microsoft EDGE team – they are really bunch of idiots. Never waste time for interview in this team. I was interviewed for Microsoft 3 times before, cleared 3 rounds all the time , never had such a bad experience. This team is really not an MS , or at least not as per Microsoft standard.
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