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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One recruiter call, then one meetup with two technical members of the team. We talked about my previous jobs and career challenges. I was given one technical task related to OOP design. I failed to do that in the timely manner so I didn't proceed with next rounds which are three back to back meetings with behavioral questions and technical challenges on the topics of algorithms, system design and object-oriented design.
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My career experience, particularly related to leadership and lead efforts.
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.
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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.
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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