I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2016
Interview
Avoid to interview with Microsoft if you have more than 5 years experiences. I had been through their hiring event and got an offer but disappointed with lower level title and salary. Try to negotiate but HR said they have lots of engineers to eager to join Microsoft so do not waste of their tme.
Microsoft, if you want to hire experienced one, please respect their career too. Sorry but there are lots of good company to value their employees!
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
