I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2021
Interview
The usual 4 rounds of interview. 2 Coding, 1 Software design, 1 system design and behavioral. Behavioral one also close to technical one. The process took nearly 3 weeks. I asked 2 weeks for preparation after the screening. I requested interviews every other day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I cant share exact questions here. But for coding you need to know about graphs, specially bfs and dfs and applying they wisely. For Software and System design you should know the basics, but just search in youtube. You will find enough resource.
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
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