[astura]

>Finally, almost everyone of the above mentioned interviewers was just not that bright. Seriously, sell your microsoft stock.

Well, if they were only interviewing you for performative box-checking reasons so they could hire the person they really wanted to hire then they would have a strong incentive to come across as somewhere you didn't want to work at. A disinterested interviewer is going to come across as not so bright. So this is hardly a fair assessment of the talent at Microsoft.

OTOH my professional interactions with Microsoft employees has always been positive. They've always been extremely capable and have gone the extra mile for me.

[VirusNewbie]

No, they were not smart engineers. one literally interrupted me to say “you can’t solve this using recursion, you need a for loop”. I clarified if they meant for stack space reasons and they said “no, it just doesn’t work recursively”.

The system design round, they got confused with some basic queueing concepts. It was a shit show.