I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bucharest, Bucuresti) in Apr 2023
Interview
There are a lot of interviews, both technical and behavioural. You need to have a strong technical background and be prepared to explain everything in detail. After the Technical Screening, I had another technical interview with a Romania-based manager, then 4 interviews with employees across the globe.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had to create the design for a parking lot at my first technical interview.
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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