I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Mar 2021
Interview
4 rounds onsite and initial round is online coding assessment, each round was 45 min and 2 system design and 2 coding challenged with behavioral, and system design were the toughest one out of all the rounds, all the best
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. System Design a Messaging Queue and implement interfaces and response classes
2. Find predecessor of the BST (recursion vs iterative), interviewer was forcing to implement in iterative but choice is ours
3. Link all the right nodes in a binary tree (in constant space)
4. System design for online word/spreadsheet where users can post dynamically and others can see it concurrently
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026
Interview
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.
