Two behaviour interviews with standard questions: what are your weak and strong points, have you had any conflicts in your team, give examples when you've challenged manager decisions and what were the outcomes, etc One technical interview focusing on distributed systems, troubleshooting customer issues and giving them suggestions.
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I don't remember what were the behaviour questions but you can check 50 most asked ones from google. As for tech interview I was presented with customer case: they were getting insufficient funds http status code while accessing azure api and asked what will be my recommendations. I suggested making a separate queue with messages with consumer firing http calls with rate limiter. Then there were questions about high availability vs fault tolerance vs disaster recovery.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Initial call with recruiter followed by an interview event. I had 3 interviews total. first was with 1 current CSM, 2nd was with a senior CSM and final was with a manager and another CSM. Very friendly and conversational
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2021
Interview
Virtual (3 phases hiring manager, colleague interview & senior manager interview) Competency interview and presentation based on a scenario Carried out via MS teams (covid pandemic conditions were in place)
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Competency questions based on a broad range of topics