Microsoft

I applied through a recruiter. The process took six months. It initially started with a recruiter. It seemed like I got a match with a team and interviewed with the project manager. Then I had four rounds over the course of a week with engineers on

I applied online for a data scientist position. I was contacted about two weeks later for a senior software engineer position instead. The interviewer was quite pleasant and helpful, and gently corrected me when I made minor mistakes.

The coding interview was easy, but the system design interview was difficult and requires detailed knowledge of cloud and distributed systems. For the coding interview, they asked about cherry pickup in both directions and how to find the optimal nu