I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2021
Interview
The interview process was standard.
This requirement was for Azure team
The first round consisted of a medium-level LC coding problem and some OS related questions. I was able to solve the problem and run through test cases but took few mins to debug for a particular test case. So the feedback was borderline.
The second round had some project-related questions, scenario-based questions, and one medium LC problem. The feedback was good.
The third round consisted of a system design problem. Although, I covered the all the points but the interviewer was expecting some more details especially around the services. The feedback was borderline.
- The second and third round feedback seemed fair. I still didn't understand why the first round feedback was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1:
1. Given a boolean 2D matrix, find the number of islands.
2. Some multithreading related questions.
3. difference between process and thread.
4. 32 and 64 processor working.
5. Inter thread communication techniques.
Round 2:
1. Some project-related questions.
2. Some scenarios based questions.
3. Given two strings S1 and S2, return true if S2 contains the permutation of s1. If S1's permutation is the substring of S2.
Round 3:
- Design an Auto-Scale System. Design the system on a high level completely. Design api, database, services, components etc.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Taipei) in May 2021
Interview
Only one on-line tech interview with the hiring manager, that is following the HR's basic question about compensation and your background. But the interviewer decline me soon after this. So I could tell why the status is 'not selected' after all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
0. Please introduce yourself.
1. Please describe your project and the chair will ask some about that.
2. To get the index of an array after some rolling, the array is pure ascending up number.
3. Please describe how to backup a whole www links in whole would.