I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Problem solving abilities mostly based on algorithms and data structures. Situational questions to determine performance in a team. Design questions and experience based questions. The process starts with interview with the recruiter who screens you to make sure that the skills match what is in the resume. Also makes you feel at ease in case you are nervous. The interview took the whole day. The interview was with 5 interviewers including the hiring manager. Overall a great experience but exhausting day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
determine common ancestor of a node in a binary tree.
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