I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2020
Interview
1 recruiter interview, 1 algorithm question face to face, and site interview with 4 people for 1 hour each. The site interview has 1 behavioral and 3 technical parts. First Question is design a whats up system, second question is transformation of data from legacy system to new system when both of them in live environment.
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