I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2020
Interview
The interviewers are very courteous and are genuinely interested in you. There were 5 interview rounds scheduled for me and had a gap of 10 mins between them. They also had a person accompany me for lunch and it was wonderful experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was scheduled for 5 rounds. 3 rounds were in Data structures and algorithms which were of mid level complexity. Please do remember that they are looking at your approach. Don't jump in to solutions. Build your algorithm. One interview was on my current project and how i would build it differently. The last interview was a design question where i had to build a Monopoly game.
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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