I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Nov 2022
Interview
I was contacted through a recruiter via LinkedIn. To get into interview round need to clear Codility round. Once it's cleared interview will be scheduled for a day, which will consists of multiple rounds. Based on first 2 round results it will proceed further.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codility round questions: 1. Given 4 digits count how many valid time can be displayed on digital clock 2. Length of the longest switching slice(continuous fragment) in a given array. Technical interviews: 1st round(60 mins): I was asked about my current project and my responsibilities. 1 behavioral question( Any crucial client issue which I have worked on and how did I act on it) Write right view of a binary tree Search an element in a sorted 2D matrix. 2nd Round(60 mins): 1 behavioral question(Most challenging task I have come across) Which data structure is suitable for insert, remove and getRandaom value with O(1) time complexity. And few questions on the data structures. Write program for stack implementation with additional functions(push, pop, getMinimum from stack, getMaximum from the given stack)
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.
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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.
