I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Prague) in May 2018
Interview
I had a call for screening and the the interview was scheduled to take place a week after, in Microsoft offices with a team lead. The time of interview is given in GMT+1 (Dublin Time)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I only got to the 1st question: write on the whiteboard the code for the following: an algorithm to determine if a given string can be described as interpolation of 2 predefined strings.
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
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.
