J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en juin 2023
Entretien
Got referred by an engineering manager there, so my first interview was with a staff engineer. This was the worst interview experience I've ever had in my 10+ year career working at 7 companies and doing lots of interviews in between. The interview is based on these silly leetcode brainteaser kind of questions that is designed to make candidates fail if they didn't specifically study for these kinds of questions and were lucky enough to have a chance to see a question that they've seen before where they can memorize the algorithm and the answer, instead of any actual real life software engineering skills.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
My first question was very specific to Java/C# where my main language was with JavaScript, I was asked about to implement threadpooling in a language of choice which is very java specific where JavaScript is a single threaded language so it didnt make any sense. The second question was the leetcode question I was asked this leet code question https://leetcode.com/problems/rotate-image/ , rotating a 2D matrix clockwise, good luck figuring out how to solve it in your brain let alone writing it in code.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Bengaluru) en juin 2026
Entretien
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.