I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2021
Interview
your standard process - leetcode hard questions with the expectations to solve it perfectly. study hard for the interview as your previous work experience is not what you will be quizzed on - expect some weird challenge that is poorly defined -> ask lots of questions. Note: once you make a mistake its basically over.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
(as per request) can not disclose. however look at the leetcode hard and you should be good.
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.