I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Atlanta, GA) in May 2022
Interview
Speaking to the interview process specifically: It was fine. Standard FAANG style feel to it, there was a pre-screen coding session and then 4 rounds of interviews with a mix of behavioral questions and 1 leetcode question.
The engineers i spoke to were nice and made the interview comfortable.
As for the recruiters/recruiting process: it was atrocious. After i applied and spoke to a recruiter about what i was interested in other recruiters (at least 4) started messaging me all asking me to fill out the same 10-15 question packet. After i finally got that sorted out it got a bit smoother until the interview rounds were complete. All communication fell apart and they began to take forever to respond. They made it seem like i did well and they were just team matching me (actual verbiage from the recruiter after the final interviews: "That being said, you were an overall [SECTION REDACTED] hire so we are just working out the details to find a team within [SECTION REDACTED] that will best suite your experience and skillsets. 😊").
Not long after the recruiter even said he found a team for me, however when we spoke he was under the assumption that i had spoken with that hiring manager, and when i said i had not he seemed confused, cut the meeting short to "investigate", and was never heard from again. All attempts to follow up with everyone i spoke with previously went unanswered.
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.
