I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Applied online
Resume shortlisted
Got call from recruiter for a screening round. You are asked about your project and career profile.
Screening cleared and you are asked to give your interview availability schedule.
Gave them few dates and time.
All of this process is through mail only.
They sent invite for the interview but the interviewer didn't join. I sent them mail for same and was told will be rescheduled.
Rescheduled 1 st technical round - asked about my profile and experience. Technical question
Round 2 - Focussed more on DSA
Interview gave me a live DSA coding problem. It was a bit complicated to understand as when I questioned interviewer. He wasn't able to give me a proper understanding of it. Anyhow tried to solve it but was unsuccessful. Though after some time interviewer was giving hints on to solve but still I failed.
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.