I applied online. The process took 12 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2019
Interview
1. Technical screening with hiring manager
2. Onsite 6 hours including 30 min lunch with Managers, engineer
Arrogant and short tempered Managers. Never heard from recruiter even after following up requesting for feedback. Never experienced this kind of behavior from mid, smaller companies in town.
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