I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
I interviewed with the Platform Intelligence team for a senior software engineer position. After applying I was sent a 75 minute take home test where I had to correct a small program and then write a leetcode medium style solution from scratch.
After passing that, I got scheduled for an "interview day" the next tuesday. It was a 4 interview on-site. If you look up microsoft onsite, it was exactly as described. 3 coding/systems design and one "as-appropriate". The coding problems were reasonable and I liked the interviewers. The as-appropriate went into excruciating detail on a "time you disagreed with a coworker" question.
I got an offer like 3 or 4 business days later for 62 (which levels.fyi says is SDE II, but the recruiter told me is a sr. role).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker technically. (Then many, maaany in-depth followup questions).
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.
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.
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