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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Jul 2024
Interview
I interviewed at Microsoft in July 2024. Since I had previously interviewed and performed well, I was able to skip the initial screening.
This time, I went through three interviews: two focused on medium-level LeetCode-style coding problems, and one that started as an object-oriented design discussion but eventually evolved into a more typical system design interview.
I passed this round and advanced to the well-known AA interview. In that round, I was asked more in-depth system design questions. While I held up in most areas, they mentioned that my performance in the deeper aspects of system design was a bit weaker. Ultimately, I didn’t pass that final stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic leetcode questions and design a game how would you go about gathering information and write the relevant classes and database scheme
This was for a fresh graduate role in the firmware space I had 4 rounds of interviews.
1. Technical phone screen : 30 mins, I was asked questions about RTOS, synchronization primitives, explain linked list and array to a 5 year old.
2. Panel interview 1 hour each, 3 rounds
Questions ranging from strings to linked list and emphasis on a lot of behavioral questions
It was great did 4 different interviews each focused on a different aspect of the job based on the programming aspect. The interviewers were great and seemed very interested in responses.