I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2020
Interview
This was part of hiring event. Recruiter reached out on Linkedin. Recruiter asked technical questions as part of phone screen. Onsite interview was straight 4 rounds and it was very hectic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Virus spreader
a. Tell me about yourself
b. Instance of obstacle you solved
2. Longest increasing sequence list
a. Tell me about yourself
b. Situation of a project you improved
3. Design linked list,middle of linked list, discussed efficiency of linked list
a. Solution of colleague approved, what would you do?
4. A:352 b:4 max element you can form
a. Tell me about yourself
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