I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2013
Interview
It was a phone screening interview for the BI solution developer position. It was arranged almost 2 months after I submitted my CV. I was interviewed by two developers on the phone. The sound quality was terrible and the was a lot of echoes and noises so I could hardly recognize the words and so was very difficult to understand the questions. The whole interview took about 1 hour. I was asked about 10 questions - some from theoretical areas, some was practical (i.e. to solve a task by writing a query).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to create a dynamic OLAP cube security model (when you have thousands of users and you can't use Roles to define database security)
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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