Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Redmond, WA) en mar 2021
Entrevista
4 rounds onsite and initial round is online coding assessment, each round was 45 min and 2 system design and 2 coding challenged with behavioral, and system design were the toughest one out of all the rounds, all the best
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
1. System Design a Messaging Queue and implement interfaces and response classes
2. Find predecessor of the BST (recursion vs iterative), interviewer was forcing to implement in iterative but choice is ours
3. Link all the right nodes in a binary tree (in constant space)
4. System design for online word/spreadsheet where users can post dynamically and others can see it concurrently
Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (San Jose, CA)
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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.
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.