I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2017
Interview
Phone Interview followed by 5 back-to-back on-site interviews with the Universal Store team in Redmond, WA. Very professional in the arrangements made for my on-site interview, and the results were communicated the very next day.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Create an n-ary tree from a set of relationship tuples. For ex: "is a" relationships like
Dog is a mammal
Labrador is a dog
Husky is a dog
HumanBeing is a mammal
Sparrow is a bird
Mammal is an animal
Bird is an animal
BanyanTree is a tree
and so on.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa
