J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft
Entretien
After initial screening interview, I was invited to a full day of interviews on spot. It took place on a working day. I was interviewed by 5 people. I found this all being way too much for one hiring process. The interviewers were very nice though and I had a lunch with local manager. Most of interviews were standard engineering questions. Last interview I personally completely disliked, because it was not so much of a technical one, but obscure task that had no right or wrong answer.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Describe sorting algorithms you know.
Construct a linked list
Last and obscure question: imagine you have an island and have task to fit an airport with 4 runways on it. How would you start? (Not sure how this shows if I am a good engineer or not)
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.