I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Aug 2013
Interview
The interview was divided into 2 stages. First was a qualifier round where I was asked to solve couple of Data structure question on white board. Later I was called for a full day process on Saturday. There were 15-20 candidate. Every round was elimination round. There were total 43technical round followed by one interview/discussion with hiring manager. I was told on same day that they are going to offer me.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
There is stack of disk on a plate. All of the disks are having a different radius. What is the best way to sort these disk so that largest come at the bottom?
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
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.
Interview questions [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.