I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2020
Interview
Recruiter contacted me in LinkedIn. Did a online coding round in Codility, after that, I was invited for the virtual interviews.
Virtual interview consisted of 3 rounds (1 behavioral, 2 coding/design)
Positive:
I enjoyed the 3 virtual interview rounds, the interviewers are very nice and I had a really interesting conversation with all of them.
Negative:
The communication/interaction with the recruiters was very bad, most of the emails where automatic messages and it seems that the didn't even care. After the virtual interviews, I received a email saying that there were going to make me an offer and that the offer could take form 1-3 weeks. I was completely ghosted after that email, I even tried to get in touch with the recruiters and even cc everyone I could but didn't get any response.
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.
