I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Red Rock, NM) in Feb 2021
Interview
Interview with 3 people from the department that was looking to hire a new software developer which took place at the Redmond campus. All 3 people had several questions relating to both past experience and hypothetical situations for which different problems were posed and your answers were challenged by each panel member.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some examples of challenges that you had to develop new approaches to overcome?
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
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