Met the MS guys on school's career, and got the on-campus interview a month later. It was quite simple. The question is to remove duplicates in a sorted linked list, and some behavioral questions. And about a week later got the on-site interview. There are four rounds. Questions I remember are: (1) turn a string "sdasd..." into all possible strings where each char can be replaced by its corresponding upper letter; (2) write a singleton class which should be fine to used in a multi-thread environment, and also asked some brain teaser problems; (3) a sorted array with all elements appear twice except one, find that element (the best solution should be O(logn)); (4) this round the interviewer is terrible, asked some meaningless problem.
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a sorted array with all elements appear twice except one, find that element (the best solution should be O(logn))
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
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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.
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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