I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Berlin) in May 2020
Interview
I applied to an ad for Berlin, and I have learned later that this ad was for multiple locations in Europe and there were no open positions for Berlin.
They contacted me with an email to have a quick phone screen almost a month later. Then after that they've sent a codility test. Which I've passed easily.
After the codility test they set up 4 interviews as a "hiring event". And due to COVID-19 all was to be done online. The day before one of the interviews were cancelled. And I had completed other three interviews. But didn't get a feedback for 10 days.
After that I have emailed to the recruiter about feedback on the interview. She told me that she has moved to other projects and another person will contact me about it.
After another week I was called by another recruiter and he said that feedback from that 3 interview was positive and they want to have a replacement interview for the cancelled one. And I will be contacted for that interview in a couple of days.
Two weeks passed and there were no contact. And I did not remember the name of the new recruiter and did not have his email but used the contact recruiter button on the Microsoft Action Center and asked them about this interview. That was almost a month ago and MS did not contact me since.
It's been almost 5 months since I applied and almost a month and a half since last contact I have received from MS. And I am really dissapointed how unprofessionally handled my process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a Library. (Not a SW library, a library for books)
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