I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Feb 2021
Interview
Total interview process happened over Microsoft Teams with 1 hr per round. Interviewers range from being stone faced to very friendly. I had a whole of 4 interviews span across multiple days. I got some very good feedback on what technical areas are lacking in my career from few interviewers and no feedback and waiting for the interview to be completed kind of rounds.
One round, the interviewer was doing a pair programming since the problem statement was very lengthy and it was fun.
Hiring manager's tone was very obvious that he found some one else and was only cross validating me with the other candidate.
No feedback from the HR so far even after 1 month and hence considering I didn't make the cut.
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