I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2024
Interview
Total waste of time
* Applied online in November, only to get a response from a recruiter asking for my availability early January.
* I answer them back and they disappear for 3 weeks.
* I follow up and get a response from the hiring manager that they had some scheduling problems, then I receive an invite for an initial interview.
* Since I am in Europe and they're in PST, the interview happens to be past-midnight on my side, so I ask if we could reschedule.
* The next day I get an automated email that I am no longer considered for this position. No reasoning provided. Totally disrespectful.
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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