I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2016
Interview
I had generated my resume using stackoverflow. After tha, I used the Microsoft careers website and I applied online for an internship in Redmond, CA (I am not an US resident). I was contacted through email by a recruiter exactly after one week after I applied..so very fast response. The process is still ongoing. But the process is like this:
- you receive an email with possible interview dates
- choose an interview date
- they don't tell you what to prepare for, just that the interview might also have technical questions
The recruiter was very friendly and nice, and was trying to make me feel comfortable by asking general questions (how's the weather etc). Good experience overall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Talk about your most important project. What was your role in the team? How many lines of code did you write overall? (tell us the programming language that you used). How did you test your code?
Q1: What are your top 3 programming languages?
Q2: Explain the process of recursion.
Q3: What is great code to you?
Q4: Can you explain the Big O notation and do you have an example ?
Q5: What is the difference between thread and processes?
Behavioural
Q1: Did you have to work on a project where one member was not contributing? What did you do?
One logical question, with fruits and baskets.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.