Microsoft | L64 | Hyderabad | Feb [Offer]

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

1. Round 1: Coding 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. This round feedback is very good in my opinion
2. Round 2: Coding 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, 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 This round feedback is also very good in my opinion
3. Round 3: Coding, Behavioural 3 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 behavioural questions I would say Good for this round
4. Round 4: Behavioural, Design Design a small web service for tracking some stats behavioural questions around my past experience May be Average overall
5. Round 5: Hiring Manager - Behavioural, Design Design a rate limiter with a few requirements Lot of behavioural questions around how i handle teams and projects, how i deal with my manager and team members May be Average overall Very good feedback from first two rounds helped in my opinion

The design questions are based on server systems and my whole experience is on 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 offer letter after ~two weeks. After experience i wanted to move close to my native, so i was happy with this offer and ready to relocate to hyderabad.

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