Question

Microsoft | Interview Experiences | L64 | 2022 | Set-11

Answer 1

Microsoft | L64 | Hyderabad | Feb 2022 

 

* Finally my turn has come after a year of regular practice and hard work.

Status: 16 yrs experience in Top MNC outside FAANG

Position: L64

Location: Hyderabad

Date: Jan 2022.

 

Recruiter contacted me on linkedin. Scheduled an interview in the last week of jan.

Completed 3 rounds in a day, round4 and 5 completed in the next week.

 

Round 1:
Leetcode medium question related to strings and palindrome
Able to explain the naive approach and quickly came up with a better approach
Coded quickly and answered all queries.

 

Round 2:
Leetcode medium question - need to implement one of the data structure
Able to explain pros and cons for 2 approaches. Discussion around performance and memory
Was asked to implement without using STL
After coding, I was asked to review it as a 3rd person. Reviewed and provided good comments
There was one bug which I could figure out after getting a hint.

Round 3: 

Coding, Behavioral
3 leetcode easy but tricky questions
Explained approach for 2 questions and was not required to code them
Was asked to code 3rd question and after coding my approach I improved it further with a hint
A few behavioral questions

 

Round 4:  

Behavioral, Design
Design a small web service for tracking some stats
behavioral questions around my past experience
 

Round 5:

Hiring Manager - Behavioral, Design
Design a rate limiter with a few requirements
Lot of behavioral questions around how i handle teams and projects, how i deal with my manager and team members
 

The design questions are based on server systems and my whole experience is on the client side.

But overall they are happy and probably based on the feedback from round4 and 5 they offered me L64 and I was somewhat happy but was expecting L65. 

 

** I GOT THE OFFER LETTER.