Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Microsoft (Redmond, WA) nel mese di mar 2021
Colloquio
4 rounds onsite and initial round is online coding assessment, each round was 45 min and 2 system design and 2 coding challenged with behavioral, and system design were the toughest one out of all the rounds, all the best
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1. System Design a Messaging Queue and implement interfaces and response classes
2. Find predecessor of the BST (recursion vs iterative), interviewer was forcing to implement in iterative but choice is ours
3. Link all the right nodes in a binary tree (in constant space)
4. System design for online word/spreadsheet where users can post dynamically and others can see it concurrently
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 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
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Microsoft (San Jose, CA)
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 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.
