J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en mars 2024
Entretien
The process was fairly disorganised. I applied in January, but only heard back late February. I found a job in the meantime, but accepted the HR call out of curiosity. The (external) rep didn't have that much info on that position and we decided on me asking for a follow-up after I settle into my new position a bit more. That decision was ignored as, about 2 weeks later, I got an e-mail asking to schedule for the 3 technical-ish interviews.
I was still curious what the position entailed, so we scheduled the interviews on 3 consecutive days. The first one went alright, I messed up the second one. The interviewers were pleasant and professional. However, the 3rd interviewer didn't show up. I gave up after waiting for about 20 minutes and sent an inquiry to the HR rep. I got an automated e-mail the next day that I had been rejected, but there was no feedback or anything. This level of disregard definitely left a sour taste in my mouth.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1) mock PR review (of a clearly terrible PR)
bunch of managerial communication-related questions
2) algo based question - basically binary search, but with gaps that should be used when inserting new values
time-management and task-blocking related questions
3) Dunno, the interviewer did not show up
J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Bengaluru) en juin 2026
Entretien
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.
