I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2019
Interview
1. Applied online in July 2019
2. Contacted for Phone Screen with HR in August 2019
3. Onsite in Seattle in November 2019:
4 back to back white board coding interviews, 45 min each
You have a log containing error logs from all different hardware at startup, made of hardware ID and error information. It contains multiple error logs for devices that try again. Write a method to remove the duplicates while keeping the first occurrence of the errors and all errors in the same relative order.
You have a list of tasks to do, where some tasks depend on others. You have methods to
1. Get all tasks this task depends on
2. Get all tasks that depend on this task
3. Get time taken by this task.
Write a method to give a valid ordering of tasks.
Follow up-
Write a method to find minimum time taken to finish all tasks if you can do infinite number of tasks in parallel.
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