I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Apr 2020
Interview
Recruitment drive, filtering out candidate at very fast pace. Have to call hr again and again to get feedback. Design part was tricky. not explained what features of application. Interviewer wants answer whats there in his mind
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Question 1
postorder to BST
Regex having ? and * as regular expression
Merge intervals
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.
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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.
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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