I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021
Interview
Average difficulty interview. The first 2 were technical interviews that involved coding. The interviewers were helpful in trying to push in the right direction by giving hints and set a positive atmosphere throughout.
The interviewer in the third round could not express well of what he wanted. He said high level design/implementation of the game of battleship. I started with a matrix implementation. Midway he said he did not communicate properly but instead wanted a different approach like a list of position objects. From there the whole discussion went downhill. There was a lot of random unconnected conversations and I could not understand what he was expecting as the final output. I got rejected after this round as expected. It would have helped if there was a clear expectation of the end result from the interview discussion. It felt like an hour of random unconnected and ever changing conversations.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Find alphabets order given an alien dictionary as inpit
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.
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