Microsoft Sr. Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Londra, Inghilterra) in Jun 2022
Interview
Applied via Microsoft Careers website. Got a recruiter email after 2 weeks.
1. Recruiter Call – General background and expectations.
2. Technical Phone Interview – Coding challenges + behavioral.
3. Onsite/Virtual Onsite (3 Rounds):
1. Coding + behavioral
2. Coding
3. System Design + behavioral
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Question 1
Coding challenge were Leetcode medium includes problem related to BFS, Heap and greedy (Leetcode 54. Spiral Matrix).
In system design interview, ask to build system that process large CSV files in background.
Lots of question around my past experience.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Ciudad de Mexico) in Apr 2021
Interview
Un reclutador de contacta y hace un primer acercamiento para evaluar de forma muy rápida tu nivel de conocimiento y dominio del inglés, después organiza una serie de entrevistas técnicas.
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Una de las preguntas fue sobre como diseñar un sistema completo.