Microsoft Sr Software Engineer interview questions
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The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Dec 2020
Interview
4 rounds of interview process including Partner group manger. All were technical round and it was back to back. Recruiters were very helpful. This requirement was for Azure compute development team
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Round 1 -
Given a snapshot of Chessboard, find out if king is under attack
They asked me what i did in my lat job.
Why we used ... and why we did X and not Y....
The to implement a Promise class, with chaining promises and Promise.All.
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Question 1
Implement a Promise class, with chaining promises and Promise.All.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2020
Interview
Recruiter contacted me in LinkedIn. Did a online coding round in Codility, after that, I was invited for the virtual interviews.
Virtual interview consisted of 3 rounds (1 behavioral, 2 coding/design)
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I enjoyed the 3 virtual interview rounds, the interviewers are very nice and I had a really interesting conversation with all of them.
Negative:
The communication/interaction with the recruiters was very bad, most of the emails where automatic messages and it seems that the didn't even care. After the virtual interviews, I received a email saying that there were going to make me an offer and that the offer could take form 1-3 weeks. I was completely ghosted after that email, I even tried to get in touch with the recruiters and even cc everyone I could but didn't get any response.