Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Taipei) en mar 2021
Entrevista
* Phone Interview with HR: Resume & Experience
* Technical & Behavioral Interview
- OnSite * 3
- Phone * 3
Technical & Behavioral Interviews:
- Interview with Hiring manager, team members, and related stakeholders with that team.
- Ask some problem solving question and answer it on whiteboard or coding sharing.
- Ask some questions for experience
- Ask some behavioral questions for leadership.
- Q&A
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Problem Solving:
- Find the corresponding number in Pascal Triangle with the given row and column.
- Given a list with numbers between 1 ~ n:
* If there is only one number appearing twice, and other numbers appear only once, how to find it?
* If there are K numbers appearing twice, and other numbers appear only once, how to find them?
* If there is only one number appearing K times, and other numbers appear only once, how to find that number?
- We have a map with some spots, please find a way to aggregate near-by spots into a number to represent how many spots in any area of a map when we zoom-out that map, so that users won't only see a lot of dot on a map.
System Design & Architect
- Please design CI/CD flow or rules to make sure: SLA, Scalability, and crash Regression.
- We have an OCR engine implementation. Please design a system to handle the following scenario: We have a lot of users who want to parse their pdf files with that OCR engine, and they can query status and get their report.
Behavioral Question:
- Describe your working experience.
- How you decide your career path, and what's your plan in the next 3~5 year?
- It seems that you're not stable during some jobs (especially for the ones which are not exceed 1 year), I think you have a good story on it, what is the key reason you decide to leave those jobs?
- How will you do if you are a new manager for a team which contains many members who have already worked here?
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.