I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Feb 2021
Interview
Interview process may vary across teams.
There will be minimum 2 technical round, mostly given some technical challenge or DSA problem to solve. Both round will have similar format. Third (or 4th if 3 technical) round will be manager round and last could be from hiring manager or senior management. Last 2 rounds would have mostly designing or solutioning kind of questions. It may also have design patterns, SOLID principals or any other broader level questions. Mostly likely last 2 round wont have technical questions.
Interviews will be mostly generic, independent of languages and technology you are coming with (exception could be if a team specifically needs some skill like react, containerization etc.), but chances are rounds will be on generic skills independent of specific skill.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SOLID principals and explanation of each individual principal.
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