I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
phone interview, 2 technical rounds, HR interview. shortlisted for technical interview but could not crack. They asked me to solve the 2 DSA question in first round, then second round was about different front end development frameworks . could not clear the DSA round, very conceptual questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA questions mostly, you have to solve them and explain to the interviewer
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.