I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I went through a phone screen which consisted of LC med and LC hard, the next step was the interview, the first interviewer asked 4-5 LC questions in quick succession, ranging from Med to hard, for some I had to write the code, others they just wanted to check for the approach.
I was asked system design questions on finding the bottlenecks in a system with a given parameters and had to come up with a solution to mitigate the answers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the locations of an optimal meeting point between points on a matrix.
write an LRU cache
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
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
