I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nueva Delhi) in Dec 2020
Interview
First round DS Algo. They scheduled zoom call. Diagonal level sum took me 30 minutes to build algo and code. Second question was difficult as he asked me design optimal strategy to reach to hagman solution.
Started with recruiter screen, then technical screen with engineering manager, then a virtual loop with multiple rounds.
Overall pretty straightforward but the technical screen was a bit different, not leetcode but was asked to design an API, so a bit low level design.
Phone screening for the position in PowerBI team. I was asked one simple binary search coding question, BQ, and front end fundamentals. Good interview experience but not match my tech stack.
Round1
1. Print all substrings of a given string
2. Add two numbers in form of Linked list.
Round2
Find the minimum number of platforms required to accommodate all the vehicles given their arrival and departure times.
Time and space complexities in both rounds.
Deep dive in projects in second round
Round 3
Horizontal scaling , vertical scaling , advantages , disadvantages of both , relational schema
DB Schema design scenario