Have onsites soon for an Azure Compute team for SDE2, but I haven't been told what to expect for onsites. Getting a bit worried since my experience doesn't have distributed systems/back-end, so I want to prepare as much as possible if need in that regard. What should I expect? One system design round and 3 LC rounds? Possibly a pure behavioral round? The team has something to do with virtualization / VMs. Any info/tips for preparation welcome.
I had an interview with azure iot 3 months ago. Expect a normal loop of interviews. I did get several questions about my projects and how big they were but it didn't seem that important. The last HM did ask me about my knowledge in Operating systems and asked me a coding question that was related to scalability. I would recommend you don't sweat about it and just practice normal easy-medium leetcode questions.
Did you get any design rounds? That's what I am worried most about tbh.
I did expect them and prepared for them but my recruiters didn't point them out and I had none. Email them with your concerns of how to prepare, they won't lie
And I hope you get it, good luck bud
I see. Hopefully my recruiter lets me know. Are you at MS now? Anyways, Thanks!
Make sure you prepare for large scale distributed design, availability, scalability, disaster recovery. Incorporate them in your system design. Also make sure you thinking and sharing about testing, error handling, compatibility with different platforms. Share that you understand that the customer base, segments have different requirements... read about Auto scaling and throttling. Search for “Azure Architecture Center” and refer to these concepts there to get good understanding.
I barely have two weeks and also need to prepare for other onsites so I don't know if I can prepare for all that but I will try. I will most likely be getting a system design round, right?
These concepts are not that tough or time consuming as they sound. Yes, you can expect a System design interview. Not necessarily something like “design Messenger”, but may be more around how you investigate perf issues in a distributed system. Ask clarifying questions.
@OP, can you share what you end up asked?
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