I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Very systematic interview about 4 hours. Assess communication skills. there are 4 interviewers. Ask mainly past experiences. You should be specific an dbe yourself. prepare for giving specific examples. not generic. Prepare for SAR methodology describing your expreriences.
4 rounds with algorithm problems, they were all like leetcode medium level problems. And one of the rounds is the lunch round. The interviewers are quite nice. Be ready to prepare well for the algorithm problems.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Dec 2020
Interview
Zoom interviews.
First interview with a team leader and a team member.
Was asked to describe a feature i worked on, and how to solve different issues that may occure.
Second interview with a team leader about home assignment..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to implement a DB index for a string field
How to implement a DB index for a numeric range (e.g give me all rows with age > 10 and <50 and describe the algorithm to get those rows (including o notation)
How to implement an index combining both string field and numeric range