I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (London, England) in Jun 2022
Interview
Applied via Microsoft Careers website. Got a recruiter email after 2 weeks.
1. Recruiter Call – General background and expectations.
2. Technical Phone Interview – Coding challenges + behavioral.
3. Onsite/Virtual Onsite (3 Rounds):
1. Coding + behavioral
2. Coding
3. System Design + behavioral
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding challenge were Leetcode medium includes problem related to BFS, Heap and greedy (Leetcode 54. Spiral Matrix).
In system design interview, ask to build system that process large CSV files in background.
Lots of question around my past experience.
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