I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2019
Interview
One phone interview(30 mins): very short and the person was very insightful on advice about how to further your career and 1 on site interview(4 rounds) 3 out of the 4 interviewers were very encouraging and thought provoking
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Interview: Fibonacci series(Time complexity), test cases for the function
Onsite interview: 4 rounds on interviews with various teams.(Each team asked one technical interview and then questions to explain previous projects, purpose of projects, why I decided to take the approach I did )
Round 1: String Manipulation(Code+test cases)
Round 2: String Manipulation(Code+how to handle big volume of files)
Round 3: Lunch Interview about System Design(queuing techniques for games)
Round 4: Core Java concepts: what is oops, explain its properties, data structure you are confident in and 1 technical question based on that, create a queue using stacks
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