Screening: They invited about 10 people on a week day at 9 in the morning and handed over a sheet of paper containing 2 programming questions to be solved in 1 hour. The questions were at easy and medium difficultly level. 1st, 2nd round: Standard algorithmic questions 3rd, 4th round: Design messenger, online book reader Positives - Some interviewers were polite and intelligent - Timely feedback after each interview Negatives - The role and the team to be hired for wasn't clear even till the hiring manager round. They just said it's going to be under Office 365 umbrella but there are tens of teams I could have put in. Not even sure about role being a backend or a client one. They said I would get to know it when I join. They have to understand it's unacceptable for anyone who has some industry experience. - A lot of wait. They asked us to arrive at 9 but didn't start before 10. The whole day got wasted in the process without any meaningful takeaway.

Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.