I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2024
Interview
I was referred and had a recruiter reach out about a week later. I scheduled a call with the hiring manager and asked in advance what this call would consist of. I was told that it would just be a resume review.
When I got on the call, I was asked how well I knew some of the optional requirements and then asked a leetcode hard with only about 15 minutes left. However, it was one I had seen before so I was able to give correct answer. After that I spoke with the HM for well over the time limit about the job and their personal experiences working for MS.
I was almost certain I was going to be moving forward since I really enjoyed the chat I had with the HM and was able to solve the question even though I was asked it by surprise.
The only thing I can think of is that I didn't know some of the optional requirements that well. In that case then I think they should have been required instead of optional, to not waste anyone's time.
I was also ghosted until I followed up multiple times .
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Question 1
NDA, but was a leetcode hard on the Microsoft list.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2024
Interview
- Called for interview, mostly system design.
- I got great feedback, they told me they did not have many questions since I addressed all the potential weakness of the design they were looking for, and that I would be hearing back from them soon.
- I got ghosted after 3 weeks, I got an automated email that the position was not available anymore... so I wasted my time on a ghost job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Standard system design of a scalable application
Had an phone screen chat with an engineer on the team. Lasted an hour and had some tech questions and two coding questions (one in c++ and one in python). Seemed to go well and they said update me in a few days. Never heard back from them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a set of strings, write a class that can tell if a given string is in the given set.