I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
Very standard tech interview overall. Phone screen with a technical question that requires coding on a shared editor. Onsite consists of 5 rounds while first 4 are with managers and senior engineers of the org and last round with the head of the org. Each round can either be coding or design, coding problems are mostly related to basic data structure / algorithm understanding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something related to data structures such as list or tree
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa