I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Taipei) in Mar 2021
Interview
* Phone Interview with HR: Resume & Experience
* Technical & Behavioral Interview
- OnSite * 3
- Phone * 3
Technical & Behavioral Interviews:
- Interview with Hiring manager, team members, and related stakeholders with that team.
- Ask some problem solving question and answer it on whiteboard or coding sharing.
- Ask some questions for experience
- Ask some behavioral questions for leadership.
- Q&A
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem Solving:
- Find the corresponding number in Pascal Triangle with the given row and column.
- Given a list with numbers between 1 ~ n:
* If there is only one number appearing twice, and other numbers appear only once, how to find it?
* If there are K numbers appearing twice, and other numbers appear only once, how to find them?
* If there is only one number appearing K times, and other numbers appear only once, how to find that number?
- We have a map with some spots, please find a way to aggregate near-by spots into a number to represent how many spots in any area of a map when we zoom-out that map, so that users won't only see a lot of dot on a map.
System Design & Architect
- Please design CI/CD flow or rules to make sure: SLA, Scalability, and crash Regression.
- We have an OCR engine implementation. Please design a system to handle the following scenario: We have a lot of users who want to parse their pdf files with that OCR engine, and they can query status and get their report.
Behavioral Question:
- Describe your working experience.
- How you decide your career path, and what's your plan in the next 3~5 year?
- It seems that you're not stable during some jobs (especially for the ones which are not exceed 1 year), I think you have a good story on it, what is the key reason you decide to leave those jobs?
- How will you do if you are a new manager for a team which contains many members who have already worked here?
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