I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Everything went well and in a friendly manner. Good team of passionate professionals. Online interview, four stages, divided into two days. All in all, nothing out of the ordinary. Your technical experience, experience in a team, behavioral issues, problem-solving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me an example of a time you made a decision that was unpopular and explain how you handled implementing it.
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