I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Australia Plains) in Apr 2026
Interview
Step 0: the recruiter sends you an email for scheduling a call with her/him + technical topics to be covered by 3 short questions asked by the hiring team
Step 1: HR call - describing the role and team. and asks 3 technical questions
Step 2: Coding interview with one of the engineers in the team. The live coding is taking place in HackerRank - LC questions. Make sure you are familiar with the platform. There are NO examples in the interview itself
Unfortunately, my interviewer confused me with the examples, and I couldn't really understand which rate limiter implementation is required (fixed, window, sliding window, token bucket etc.)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What is a WebSocket, when do you use it, and how is it diff from an HTTP call?
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026
Interview
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.