I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Was recruited on Linkedin to apply. Had a 30 minute phone interview with HR and then was asked to come in for a final round interview. Final round consisted of a meeting with HR and then five technical interviews (all 45-60 minutes each). You were shuffled from one interview to the next with almost no time to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Interview: How would you explain recursion to a child?
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Three rounds - Includes Behavioral, Technical and a Bar Raiser Round.
Asked questions from my resume started with basic system designing and explored my knowledge in system design using microservices architecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed Systems LLD Designing. Programming question random
Started with phone screening it went well then headed to a full loop of 3 rounds. Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past college project and a technical challenge I faced.
Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Firstly Phone Interview * 1
Then on-site interview *3
Finally interview with Team Lead
Each interview has live coding problems included
Merely no behavior questions
all in Chinese, but one interviewer requested an english introduction
The interview process went very quickly
Interviewers were nice and polite