Microsoft | L62 | Hyderabad/Noida

Education: B.Tech in Computer Science from Tier-1 College
Years of experience: 5.5+ years
Current Company : Top MNC
Current CTC : 48L
Location: Remote

Company : Microsoft
Position : L62
Date : Feb'24

Online Assessment: Time: 1.5 hrs

One question based on fixing a bug.
One question based on Sliding Window. - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/4110259/Amazon-OA-Question/

Round 1: DS. Time: 60 mins

Question based on string. Very similar to find the anagram

Platform - Codility codelive

Focus areas :
Code quality and correctness
Proper working code for sample test cases and the existing hidden case.
Submit the code.

Round 2: LLD. Time: 60 mins
https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/1508471/code-design-file-processing-scenario
Codility codelive

Focus areas :
SOLID Principles
Design Patterns
Object Oriented Design
Extensible code with working demo

Round 3: DSA/HLD round. Time: ~60 mins
Write the pow function for x^n (logarithmic TC)
Design a news app portal having news source from multiple source.

Focus areas :
Microservices architecture
Database and caching strategy.
CAP discussion
Scalability and low latency

Round 4: Managerial round. Time: ~60 mins
Detailed project discussion and detailed system design of one of my previous projects. Behavioural questions. Team and project discussion in Microsoft.

Verdict: Selected