Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 3 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Seattle, WA) en feb 2018
Entrevista
I was initially contacted by recruiter over LinkedIn with generic message on 21st November. I replied on 22nd and sent hime my resume. The recruiter disappeared. When I pinged him again on December 6th, he replied and we had a phone conversation. He told me that he will forward my resume to hiring managers in Azure. He then disappeared again for 2 weeks. When I pinged him again just after christmas, he said he will get back to me again. He again disappeared and finally replied on 10th January that couple of teams in Azure are interested. He asked me send him over time slots for phone screening. I did and then it was radio silence again. In first week of february, recruiter told me to send my new availabilities for phone screenign. I did again. Finally my phone screen was set.
The phone screen was held using Skype for business, which does not have client for Ubuntu. So I managed to get hold of a mac for interview. The interviewer also did not know how to use the Skype for business. He asked me some design questions. At the end when I asked interviewer about when I should expect to hear from recruiter, he said "Your guess is as good as mine". When I told him about the long process I have been part of, he promised to expedite the process. And sure enough after 3 days I learned that I have cleared the phone screening.
But recruiter called me and told me that I should not have complained about the long time for me to get phone screening and it looks bad for me and I should refrain from mentioning this again in on-site interview. It has been a week, but my onsite has not been scheduled, despite me telling the recruiter that I have other interviews lined up. It doesn't matter, as I am not going on on-site interview anyway.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Explain Lambda and Kappa patterns for big data pipelines
Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Bengaluru) en jun 2026
Entrevista
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.