I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Leetcode style interview, 3 questions across 90 minutes, Canidates are given a web IDE and a choice of about 8 popular languages. All keystrokes and submissions are logged; and checked by humans.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
At first glance questions were simple; edge cases were more difficult.
Microsoft interviewing team came to College fair, they took one round of interview there, after that i got to do one assessment, two phone interview. It was in two week process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain some quirky question like create process to find droplets of rain fallen in 1 meter area in 1 minute
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2023
Interview
Total 5 rounds of interview
1. Codility online platform
2. Problem solving DSA round
3. System Design round
4. Android round
5. Architecture and behavioral round (AA round)
If all the rounds are good then the 5 th As Appropriate round is taken by one of the hiring manager or skip level director
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
High level architecture design
Android concepts and architecture from start to end
Problem solving DSA questions
Mostly from strings and tree
Codility round - String , Diameter of binary tree
AA round- Design a Netflix movie suggestion carousel