You get a call from employees/HR for a screening round, thts a phone screening. Mostly problem solving one or 2 questions are given. Your enthusiasm, your knowledge about current work, communication skills also verified.
once you clear above you get a schedule request for full loop which has 4 more rounds. The rounds start with typical porblem solving to designing a new software. Make sure scale and performance is considered.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Implement regular expressions search where only wild cards are star and question mark
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2021
Interview
it was an hour interview, 10 minutes about my resume and experience, 40 minutes an easy coding question and different approach of it. and 10 minutes just talking about the role.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in May 2021
Interview
I was amazed how fast Microsoft have managed to run my hiring process. I have already had another offer from a high value company, before signing there I thought to check my luck with Microsoft.
Knowing that, HR called me day after I have submitted my CV, she scheduled a back to back 3 interviews in 4 hours for the following day.
The interviews were well organized, I felt very welcome (using Teams- remote interviews with team leaders from Redmond USA).
First interview, getting to know me, talk about some technologies I worked with and my thoughts about each and my experience.
Second interview, I presented some work I did in the past in the first part and on the second part was asked to design a system in high level (networking, security, proxy, vpn, on-prem and cloud).
Third interview coding question, solve an algorithm question in the subject of stacks and queues- felt easy on first read but luckily found a catch in the middle (ended up to be harder then I thought, but still managed to solve it).
I got a call the next day letting me know we are moving to an offer.
Got the offer letter the same day, salary and benefits were way above my demand.
I was given a week to decide.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Design a system in high level (networking, security, proxy, vpn, on-prem and cloud).
- Coding question, solve an algorithm question in the subject of stacks and queues-