#!process microsoft offer
deft saffron
june 20 apply
june 23 referral
july 1 reply to schedule phone call
july 3 phone call
july 9 reply to schedule final
july 22 final
july 26 verbal offer
july 29 written offer
lowballed offer considering 1yoe + masters + 2x msft intern but 🤷♂️, in this economy
easiest finals ive had in a long time tho... bunch of lc easy/meds (which I expected from msft)
L59, link is dead already
median atlas
thx for sharing!
drifting minnow
You can get a referral after you applied to the position at msft?
tropic bear
@deft saffron u didnt get msft ro and had to apply externally?
deft saffron
<@213945301797437440> u didnt get msft ro and had to apply externally?
sadly no
deft saffron
it was a huge mess
tropic bear
Give ur previous manager a warm hello
deft saffron
i basically wrote a blind post in the msft discord
balmy seal
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deft saffron
which post is this, im also in the msft discord
just search for my name and keep scrolling back, its quite long
u need to be verified
drifting minnow
ohh gotcha ty
tropic bear
ES
Just resd it what a shit low
And they gave u l59 offer and its lowball too?
😭
sounds like some zon type behavior
deft saffron
yeah
deft saffron
And they gave u l59 offer and its lowball too?
i got fked by a recruiter twice essentially (+ my manager on the first one)
i was on track for l60 before
deft saffron
Would you mind sharing the category of problems?
unfortunately im under NDA but i can say they were famous problems, famous enough that the interviewer was surprised i hadnt seen it considering im a strong leetcoder
and even if i did it would be pointless because they picked these questions randomly (based on each interviewer's own judgement)
but they were LC mediums, leaning towards easy
deft saffron
and what the OOD question was like?
typical ones u can find in lc, like LRU cache, etc.
in fact, i found an LC equivalent after the interview, just slightly diff wording
it was braindead easy honestly, most interviews im done in like 20m, i felt like they rly pushed me on behavioural but i had answers because their qns were generic
umbral elm
Thank you for the detailed info!
umbral elm
typical ones u can find in lc, like LRU cache, etc.
how good are you at leetcode? Bc LRU cache is not easy at all for me lol. In fact, it’s pretty hard
deft saffron
i would say i spent majority of the interview on behavioural but i didnt keep track
deft saffron
how good are you at leetcode? Bc LRU cache is not easy at all for me lol. In fac...
yes, desperate times these days
any interview u get needs u to land a job
im probably like
1k questions
over the last 5 years
very few hards but i know interviews dont ask hards
though im a bit rusty these days so take it as u will
i can solve mediums for the most part, easy mediums definitely easy solve for me
wrote this the other day too prior to NDA:
found out the role i was interviewing for at msft was ~1000 application in a day, application closed within the day, recruiter went and filtered to ~100 resumes that the engineering team looked over, filtered to 10 phone interviews, and <10 to final rounds (i suspect it should be around 3 people), then they said that theyll pick the best candidate for the specific role but if there are other good candidates, they MIGHT put on team matching
umbral elm
Woah, so you beat out 100-1000 other ppl basically
you deserve it tho, that many leetcode qs is insane haha
deft saffron
ok but 1k questions over 5 years tho
ppl who landed a job within the last 1-2 years during these bad times did 1k questions within the last 1-2 years 🙃
deft saffron
varies too wildly
slim turret
citizen?
slim turret
same 2x ms. can i dm you