Microsoft

I applied as a student engineer. They liked my resume and reached out for a virtual interview. It was one-on-one and was more of a systems design question. After two weeks, I heard back that I had moved on to the final round of interviews. There were

I had an initial screening by the hiring manager. Then, a series of four interviews back-to-back with both developers and a PM. The process took about a month. Mostly technical questions.

The interviewer lacked an understanding of sockets. I tried to explain why I needed handshaking for a connection, but they didn't understand me well. They also didn't grasp basic principles of distributed systems. Microsoft should do a better job p