J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en mars 2024
Entretien
The process was fairly disorganised. I applied in January, but only heard back late February. I found a job in the meantime, but accepted the HR call out of curiosity. The (external) rep didn't have that much info on that position and we decided on me asking for a follow-up after I settle into my new position a bit more. That decision was ignored as, about 2 weeks later, I got an e-mail asking to schedule for the 3 technical-ish interviews.
I was still curious what the position entailed, so we scheduled the interviews on 3 consecutive days. The first one went alright, I messed up the second one. The interviewers were pleasant and professional. However, the 3rd interviewer didn't show up. I gave up after waiting for about 20 minutes and sent an inquiry to the HR rep. I got an automated e-mail the next day that I had been rejected, but there was no feedback or anything. This level of disregard definitely left a sour taste in my mouth.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1) mock PR review (of a clearly terrible PR)
bunch of managerial communication-related questions
2) algo based question - basically binary search, but with gaps that should be used when inserting new values
time-management and task-blocking related questions
3) Dunno, the interviewer did not show up
J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (San Jose, CA)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [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.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (McLean, VA)
Entretien
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.