I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Nov 2022
Interview
I was contacted through a recruiter via LinkedIn. To get into interview round need to clear Codility round. Once it's cleared interview will be scheduled for a day, which will consists of multiple rounds. Based on first 2 round results it will proceed further.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codility round questions: 1. Given 4 digits count how many valid time can be displayed on digital clock 2. Length of the longest switching slice(continuous fragment) in a given array. Technical interviews: 1st round(60 mins): I was asked about my current project and my responsibilities. 1 behavioral question( Any crucial client issue which I have worked on and how did I act on it) Write right view of a binary tree Search an element in a sorted 2D matrix. 2nd Round(60 mins): 1 behavioral question(Most challenging task I have come across) Which data structure is suitable for insert, remove and getRandaom value with O(1) time complexity. And few questions on the data structures. Write program for stack implementation with additional functions(push, pop, getMinimum from stack, getMaximum from the given stack)
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.
