I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2024
Interview
Technical screen then virtual onsite with coding, system design, behavior interview.
All of the interviewers were great to speak with. The recruiter was very unpleasant. He not only missed chats with me that he scheduled due to in his words "working with multiple time zones is hard," but also told me wrong information about my interviews. Such as wrong name, or wrong type of interview, or wrong times.
Stop using outsourced recruiters from other companies. They definitely do not pass the Microsoft bar. They are very incompetent.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OOP design, system design, leetcode, behavior questions about my work history.
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.
