I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2014
Interview
Went through a phone interview, and was then flown out to Redmond to interview. Campus was beautiful and so was the hotel they paid for me. Everything except the interviews themselves were amazing really, but once actually getting to an interview it was extremely difficult to understand what my interviewers wanted me to do as well as to physically understand their thick accents. Technically the questions were a split between standard algorithms questions, and more difficult algorithms questions. There were a few non technical questions, which I didn't understand (something about twitter and sentiment analysis but what the interview actually wanted for a solution was difficult to understand)
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.