I was originally interviewed for a team where, after the full loop of six interviews, the hiring manager ran into a headcount problem. She talked to another team in the same organization, and they contacted me.

The hiring manager gave me a general overview and invited me to come over to Redmond.

I had another full loop of five interviews, the last one with the General Manager, who told me he would make me an offer. When I returned to the hotel, the recruiter called me and told me everything was good.

Questions were all about problem-solving and writing code on the whiteboard. There were also questions about past work experiences, challenges faced, etc.

The questions were meant to be confidential for obvious reasons.

In general, they covered topics such as:

• BSTs
• Graphs
• String manipulation
• Multi-threading synchronization & collections.