I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2020
Interview
Recruiter contacted me in LinkedIn. Did a online coding round in Codility, after that, I was invited for the virtual interviews.
Virtual interview consisted of 3 rounds (1 behavioral, 2 coding/design)
Positive:
I enjoyed the 3 virtual interview rounds, the interviewers are very nice and I had a really interesting conversation with all of them.
Negative:
The communication/interaction with the recruiters was very bad, most of the emails where automatic messages and it seems that the didn't even care. After the virtual interviews, I received a email saying that there were going to make me an offer and that the offer could take form 1-3 weeks. I was completely ghosted after that email, I even tried to get in touch with the recruiters and even cc everyone I could but didn't get any response.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.