I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Mar 2025
Interview
Immediately right off the bat I was not able to reschedule so I was forced to do the interview on the time they wanted even though it was very inconvenient for me. The first interview, the interviewer sabotaged me by not letting me solve the leetcode question that required usage of fast/slow pointers. Overall the worst company I have ever interviewed with 10 years working in tech and probably will never interview with them again.
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