I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2021
Interview
Technical Phone Screen (30 min) - Video call with engineer. Asked 1 Technical, followed up with a few behavioral questions regarding my resume + experiences
1 week - Heard back with news that I was moved forward to onsite
Onsite:
Four back to back 1 hour interviews. Each interview consisted of questions about my resume, 1 LC medium questions (as I would run out of time), followed by time to ask questions to the engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reverse Words in a String
Find Path in a Maze
Find Pivot in Sorted Array
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