I applied in-person. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2019
Interview
Started with a Phone Interview in October 2018 mainly focused on behaviour question and no technical. Then got a follow-up mail from the recruiter saying selected for final round of interviews but had to wait cause all slots are full. Then recruiter left the Job so was very hard to find who was the replacement for them and finally scheduled my Onsite interview on February 15th. Onsite interview was mainly focused on Data Structures and Algorithms. Had five rounds back to back with all the question being a medium leetcode difficulty. Finally got my results negative with no feedback. The recruiter was rude saying, we always provide feedback but couldn't this time.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sept 2025
Interview
Three rounds - Includes Behavioral, Technical and a Bar Raiser Round.
Asked questions from my resume started with basic system designing and explored my knowledge in system design using microservices architecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed Systems LLD Designing. Programming question random
Started with phone screening it went well then headed to a full loop of 3 rounds. Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past college project and a technical challenge I faced.
Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Firstly Phone Interview * 1
Then on-site interview *3
Finally interview with Team Lead
Each interview has live coding problems included
Merely no behavior questions
all in Chinese, but one interviewer requested an english introduction
The interview process went very quickly
Interviewers were nice and polite