I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Cambridge, MA) in Jun 2018
Interview
I declined their offer because I would not want to work in this office. The interviewers were stone-faced and not interested in expanding their team. I even went to the bathroom between interviews and overheard two interviewers talking badly about another candidate there. This is very unprofessional and sets a bias against the candidate.
The interview process was an easy technical phone screen followed by an on-site interview. The on-site was four separate 45-min interviews with a 15-min break between. Three of the four were coding questions and the last was a conversation with the hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode type problems related to multi-threading.
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.
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.
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