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:
Background check: 20%
Personality test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2021
Interview
The interview process was standard.
This requirement was for Azure team
The first round consisted of a medium-level LC coding problem and some OS related questions. I was able to solve the problem and run through test cases but took few mins to debug for a particular test case. So the feedback was borderline.
The second round had some project-related questions, scenario-based questions, and one medium LC problem. The feedback was good.
The third round consisted of a system design problem. Although, I covered the all the points but the interviewer was expecting some more details especially around the services. The feedback was borderline.
- The second and third round feedback seemed fair. I still didn't understand why the first round feedback was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1:
1. Given a boolean 2D matrix, find the number of islands.
2. Some multithreading related questions.
3. difference between process and thread.
4. 32 and 64 processor working.
5. Inter thread communication techniques.
Round 2:
1. Some project-related questions.
2. Some scenarios based questions.
3. Given two strings S1 and S2, return true if S2 contains the permutation of s1. If S1's permutation is the substring of S2.
Round 3:
- Design an Auto-Scale System. Design the system on a high level completely. Design api, database, services, components etc.
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