I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2024
Interview
Total waste of time
* Applied online in November, only to get a response from a recruiter asking for my availability early January.
* I answer them back and they disappear for 3 weeks.
* I follow up and get a response from the hiring manager that they had some scheduling problems, then I receive an invite for an initial interview.
* Since I am in Europe and they're in PST, the interview happens to be past-midnight on my side, so I ask if we could reschedule.
* The next day I get an automated email that I am no longer considered for this position. No reasoning provided. Totally disrespectful.
Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Microsoft
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
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.
