I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I had 3 interviews
one was mostly behavioural with questions about debugging
other two were behavioral and leetcode type questions
the first was with a manager
other 2 interviewers had me solve one leetcode medium question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take any scenario with any application of your choice and walk through what steps you would take to debug it if you found an error.
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