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
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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