I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2021
Interview
First round 30 minutes interview held online on codility. I had technical difficulties with audio so was not able to complete my interview successfully for the slot I signed up for. The interviewer was very nice regarding the situation and also reached out to the recruiter to reschedule the interview for later time that day itself.
rescheduled interview went well technical wise. The interviewer was very easy to talk to. Was asked a leetcode medium question. The interviewer guided me through the solution and had genuine feedback.
To prep I would prepare basic behaviour questions and practice mock interview and leetcode questions.
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