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 (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.