Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Personality test: 20%
Background check: 20%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jul 2020
Interview
It's got initiated with a couple of calls from a technical recruiter, this was an opening for SAP GTS. During an interview, I had given almost all the answers correct, the interviewer was at the same designation for which I have been interviewing for, I realised the Question was not at the level I was expecting maybe the person who interviewing is not skilled up in the level he is supposed to take an interview and guess what he rejected me where I answered all most all answers right. I still wondering why I got rejected, just a suggestion to recruiting team don't put a panel of the same designation for which you are recruiting it creates a conflict of interest and maybe a bit of insecurity while taking the decision.
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