Applied via third party recruiter. The whole process occurred quickly and smoothly. Get request for phone screen(30 -45 mins) within 3 days that refer program(recruiter submit your application and you need to complete the application via taleo). Phone screen was held by the team lead(10+ yrs with MS), 1. basic tech questions : Java fundamentals+ Spring +Spring MVC + RDBMS (Oracle/DB2/Sybase, anyone is fine) + multi-threading. I mentioned i was not an expert on front end , so all the front end questions were bypassed. 2. Describe the most challenging moment, and how you deal with it. 3 Approaches on tuning up system performance. Get request for onsite the same day, was push to meet in the same week. Onsite was held in midtown-NYC,4 rounds/ 4 people from diff team. For first 3 three rounds , 5-10 mins background discussion + 15 mins tech questions(Java/Spring/DB/SQL, depends on which team was the interviewer from) + 15 coding challenges (1~2 questions, Hackerrank/CarrerCup easy - mid difficulty , done on paper/while board, language can be any you prefer(Java/JS/Scala/Python...), it is fine if not finished the coding, but need to explain the logic ) + 5~ 10 mins questions against the role/MS. Offer was given in the following week.

Revising basics of java language thoroughly, with easy to medium problem solving will help in getting through. Interviewer was patient and helping if struck in between. Recruiters were also very resposive.