I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in July 2015
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter - that was a career hold in MSFT HQ. After talking to recruiter, there is a phone screen to write two functions before they asked me to go onsite. The onsite interview process did not take long - I talked to 4 senor engineers and finished the event in the afternoon. The questions are not particularly difficult, compared with other Bay Area SW companies.
The first was a talk with the recruiter, then an online assignment with Leetcode Medium type of question. Finally, the 3 round interview with system design, coding and low level design
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA)
Interview
The Onsite consisted of 2 system design questions and 2 technical questions. This rounds were back to back and they weren't actually ordered, I thought I was doing to be doing technical first but was hit with design at the start.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The design questions made sense for the role (unfortunately I was not aware of the role since I was a general applicant). The two technical questions were not on leetcode but custom questions the interviewers had which were actually not bad.
Five rounds of interview with mostly leetcode medium or hard level problems. It included one design round typical to game design rather than system design. The interview I participa\ted was part of hiring event.
