I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2023
Interview
First interview is with a recruiter, they have very little tech knowledge and mainly just validate you resume and help place you on a team. You don't apply to a specific team the team or recruiter chooses you. Then there is a tech screening where you talk to an engineer. They will ask you technical questions about the role, mine only asked one "interview DSA" question and it was about Leetcode easy which they made me verbally solve but not code. Several big idea questions about front end frameworks (I assume they wanted a frontend engineer which I am not). After this there is technical interview in which you code, which I did not do.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First call is a recruiter who will just ask you about your resume, as long as you can talk about whats on there you will pass. Tech screening is simple DSA questions which you will verbally solve. Then several conceptual questions about whatever team you are going to be interviewing for.
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