I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv)
Interview
Online meeting with a technical recruiter, talked about relevant work experience and the hiring process. The next step is
three online technical interviews, at the same day. Leetcode style interview with 2 questions, system design interview and object oriented programming design interview.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Coin change: Find all combinations of coins https://leetcode.com/problems/coin-change-ii/
System Design:
Implement public transportation system:
Buses send current locations
Riders choose routes
Riders get updates, alerts
Data Analysts analyze traffic patterns
System can suggest new routes based on historical data
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
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
