I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2023
Interview
Total 5 rounds of interview
1. Codility online platform
2. Problem solving DSA round
3. System Design round
4. Android round
5. Architecture and behavioral round (AA round)
If all the rounds are good then the 5 th As Appropriate round is taken by one of the hiring manager or skip level director
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
High level architecture design
Android concepts and architecture from start to end
Problem solving DSA questions
Mostly from strings and tree
Codility round - String , Diameter of binary tree
AA round- Design a Netflix movie suggestion carousel
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.
