I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2025
Interview
Two interviews.
The first one was focused on system design.
The second one was a review of my entire career, with a discussion of the biggest challenges and a lot of technical details.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked about the most recent problem I remember, the biggest challenge I faced, and how I would patch an npm package step by step, from the first step to the last.
Phone Screen done for teams, easy Data Structures questions, and scenario based on what DS to use when.
Also got a scenario of designing a hashing algorithm for partitioning purposes, which talks about different ways of solving it, and how to implement that using Hashmaps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA questions like when to use HashMaps vs Queues vs Stacks.
2 technical round in same day. Virtual interview, just got call from HR 2 days before the interview. Panel was good then create comfortable environment and they were encouraging me and supporting me to solve the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st technical round - panel asked hacker rank problem solving questions on graphs+tree DS based problem, problem was related to count the number of path which forms a palindrom in BT
2nd round - Design a notepad
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
It was much easier than I expected- It started of with a technical HackerRank screening 2 Med + 1 Hard LC.
1st Round - System Design & LLD of something like sports scoreboard [30mins] + Behavior [15mins]
2nd Round - Behavior[25mins] + 1 LeetCode Problem (20mins)
3rd Round - Culture Fit/ Behavior [45 mins solid Behavior]
4th Round - LLD (Restaurant Reservation) + 2 LeetCode [Medium - PrefixSum & LinkedList]