I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Barcelone) in Apr 2024
Interview
First step was online coding exercise whic was really two hard questions, leetcode hard level or maybe more. After passing that, there was a silence for a month and the recruiter disappeared. After that, another recruiter contacted me and asked me if i could have 4 interviews in a row on a fixed date, not earlier, not later. I had to accept it and I had 4 intervies that last for 6 hours.
First one was easy to medium coding interview which you had to ask a lot of questions to determine the problem briefly, and find the edge cases. The interviewer was friendly and helping you to solve the problem.
Second interview was about database design and querying related questions which was easy in my opinion
Third one was system design and it was about commenting on an existing design, the interviewer was asking about the problems and possible solutions about the system, how we can make it better.
The fourth one was about cultural fit, I kinda feel that the interviewer was bored and again cliche questions related to work life.
And after all the interviews I had a very positive opinions from the interviewers, I thought finally I will be able to get the job, but unfortunately I didn't have any feedback from the recruiter, they haven't answered me with anything even though i sent them several mails about the result.
I will not waste my time again interviewing with Microsoft.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
system design, medium coding question, database queries
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade)
Interview
Recruiter screening call by an external agency.
Manager interview to discuss relevant experience and solve a simple live coding task.
Technical interviews including harder system design and live coding tasks with three senior developers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hard natural language parsing problem from leetcode...
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Jul 2024
Interview
I was contacted by the Microsoft recruiter on LinkedIn. The process consisted of an online coding assessment(Codility) and then a virtual on-site round that consisted of three different type of interviews. Those were:
1. Coding round
2. LLD round
3. System Design round
All of the interviewers in each round started with a few technical and behavioural questions and then jumped to the main part of the interview round.
One of the things that I didn't like I about the interview process was that I was not consulted at all for my availability and convenience. I was informed that my interviews have been scheduled for this day and this time. Microsoft should think about the convenience of candidates as well.
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
Out of all the programming languages you have worked with, what criteria would you have to choose the language for your new project.
Implement a system to facilitate the auto-complete/recommendations in a cloud shell. For example, `cd /home/work/.....`. The requirements and expectations weren't very clear in this question for me. It was presented as an algorithmic problem, but expected to be solved as a design problem.