I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in May 2024
Interview
The team manager interviewed and asked initial basic questions for about 15 minutes. Then started technical question related to solving a coding problem. He was very motivating and encouraging, was helping on some part of the code to make me fully understand the issue.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem statements for the real situation and asked to solve the problem writing code.
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