#Microsoft final round

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slender frigate
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@oblique egret how did you prepare for the final round of microsoft interview?

oblique egret
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So microsoft final round is pretty straight forward

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theres a behavoiral protion

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where you awnser questions that are very case spesific so like theyll have a copy of your resume they may not tell you they do

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but I was able to figure out they did because they mentioned somehting on it that I didnt say yet

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theyll spend like 20-25 minutes talking about your behavioral and MAKE SURE you do well

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hammer in their principles

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so look at that specially

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so i talked about accesbilty heavily and then mentioned growth alot and admitted my failures pretty readily but made sure to elaborate on how i reflcted upon that and made a change in my behaviors and how that positive chnaged has made in impact now

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then theres a tech for the last portion

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lowk doesnt matter as much cuz i fucked up my first one barely explained propely and only last second cluthed the tech

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they ask pretty stright forward questions

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you may or may not even have test cases

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so 20-25 min behvaioral MOST IMPORTANT

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then rest is basic tech capabilty

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they do ask

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from the leetcode 30 days

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and they asked a easy and a meduim

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form that list or like a variation of it

slender frigate
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I see, so for the technical part of the interview, should I just grind the recent 30 days tagged ones

oblique egret
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100%

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both question i was asked were on it

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but you just have to do a decent job on it so dont stress

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im really telling you that behavioral is super impoarnt

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cuz i messed up the tech

slender frigate
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Did you demonstrate alignment with their core principles by using specific examples?

oblique egret
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yep

slender frigate
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is it also good to directly mention those principles?

oblique egret
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yeah i think but dont refrence it word for word or smth

slender frigate
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bet, thank you!!

oblique egret
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🤞

slender frigate
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and just curious, did you have any international student in your cohort? cuz i am

oblique egret
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i do not know sadly

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i think as long as you demonstrate your capabilties

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youll be fine

slender frigate
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sounds great, how long did it take to hear back after final interview?

oblique egret
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so i did my interview on Monday

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i heard back like deadass like 1 hour ago

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well not really heard back but my action center moved to complete

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which is usally an offer

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and a couple minutes before that someone called me and told me not to accpet competing offer

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so they work fast

slender frigate
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ohh I see idk why I thought you interned last year lol

oblique egret
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oh no like just now

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i want eveyone to succed

slender frigate
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wow they work fast! Sounds great

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dude, thank you so much for your insight

oblique egret
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i not like those people wholl gatekeep cuz they want to fuck ovber people in thier same inteviews pool

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if anyone else has questions ask away

tender valve
oblique egret
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Cambridge fullstack swe

rapid bear
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i can also contribute a bit to this discussion, the questions can vary heavily between interviewer but make sure you knock down the principles microsoft has

slender frigate
rapid bear
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security business group

west hinge
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I’m new to the server how do u get the last 30 days questions?

slender frigate
fading violet
halcyon mango
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@slender frigate how many days did it take to hear back after doing the OA?

slender frigate
fading violet
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@oblique egret did they have you write your own test cases?

oblique egret
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Sorry it was Halloweenweekend didn’t really check discord

oblique egret
oblique egret
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Senior wanted me to figure out all the test cases and add them myself

rapid bear
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^ same for me, one had me write test cases
took me ~14 days post oa to get int invite, can be up to 30 days

halcyon mango
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do you guys think its worth telling my msft recruiter to move me onto the interview process if I have a competiting offer in hand?

oblique egret
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No they would probably tell u to just accept that

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Only use competing offer after u finish interview to get a response faster

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Telling them you got competing offer is a double edge sword. if they are on the fence abt you they won’t take the chance on you at all but if your a super strong applicant than they rush to accept you. If you haven’t gotten the interview invite yet your probably in the first half so I personally wouldn’t

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@halcyon mango

halcyon mango
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yeah thanks for the advice! I was also thinking the same thing

halcyon mango
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my only concern is that i'm not going to be hearing back from microsoft

fading violet
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Does anyone know how long they interview ppl for? The team I was supposed to interview for is full so they’re cancelling my interview but invited me to interview with a diff team in over a month from now so im concerned they’ll fill the spots by then

oblique egret
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No idea but ik alot of offers are coming out so headcount is filling up

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but if they said thers another team just hope for that

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if you check reddits and stuff people are getting stack ranked out of the process and waitlisted so maybe try and ask and see if you can interview earlier

oblique egret
fringe anchor
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@oblique egret which job ID did you interview for?

oblique egret
halcyon mango
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slurp is this true? should i be worried if i haven't heard back yet? its been 2~ weeks since i completed my oa

oblique egret
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if your part of the AI ML one

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im pretty sure no one has gotten an interview for that

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@halcyon mango

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it highly depends on ur team ur intervewing for

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if u did the OA maxed it and u didnt or smth which would flag u

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a recrtuierr should reach out it took mine excatly 2 weeks so u should be fine

fringe anchor
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Took maybe 4-6 weeks for me to get a response after OA (full score)

halcyon mango
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I'm in the process for the full stack redmond intern role

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well today is 2 weeks exactly after doing the OA.