I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2020
Interview
First 1 hour screening interview on Microsoft Teams, with a programming question to solve in a text editor. Then 4 1 hour interviews with four members of the Hololens team, one of program design, 3 of technical programming question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to approach finding words from a dictionary of valid words in a grid of letters. Some other average programming questions. No question that would really differentiate a good computer graduate from a more experimented programmer, it was very scholar.
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