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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jun 2024
Interview
I was able to qualify only until 3rd round.
First was a recruiter call, then a pre-screen and then an interview with the hiring manager. It was a technical+behavioral round involving a Leetcode medium question. No feedback given, despite my interview being 9/10 according to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a hashmap? (Followups) How does it work? Design a hashmap. (Followup) How will you optimize it (for ex: optimize hashing function,etc. A lot of discussion about various techniques and data structures)? (Followup) Tell me real-life example of hashmap. (Even though I gave 2 examples, he wanted more, wanted to see how creative can I think).
El proceso de seleccion es muy lenta y no le da opciones al aplicante a realizar una entrevista para seguir con el proceso y solo me contactaron que no seguia en el proceso
leetcode style interview with a number of different behavioral questions spanning why you would want to work at Microsoft to what do you think your greatest strength is and what your greatest weakness is