Microsoft | L63 | India | June 2023 | Offer

Status: SDE in FAANG+ company
Position: L63 Microsoft
YOE : 11 years

Online cordiality screening round

1. https://leetcode.com/problems/car-fleet/
2. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/889638/hudson-river-trading-oa-two-rooks
   Got an email that I was selected for online interviews.

Round 1 : LLD + HLD round

This round was a mix of HLD and LLD.
The interviewer asked me to design a Web crawler first HLD and then LLD.

Round 2: Coding

1. https://leetcode.com/problems/sort-colors/description/
   I have given a time-optimized approach first but the interviewer asked to optimize on space also.
2. https://leetcode.com/problems/search-in-rotated-sorted-array/

Round 3: HLD round

1. Which one is better Microservices or Monolith?
2. HLD of text auto-complete.

Round 4: Managerial

1. Why do you want to join Microsoft?
2. HLD of a VPN service. we spent only 15 min on this.
3. Questions from resume.
4. What will be your approach to removing a public API from the market, with minimal client impact?

Overall rounds were hard for me but finally received an offer after two weeks of waiting.