I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Aug 2018
Interview
*****Please do not go when called for hiring drive events*****
It was a hiring drive conducted in Bangalore Centre for Hyderabad location. The interview process consisted of 3 major algorithm and data structures rounds that happened on that day. Not sure about further rounds as they didn't happen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question related to LinkedLists, Online Algorithms, Arrays e.t.c
They took all day from 11 AM to 7 PM.... Conducted only 3 rounds....I had positive feedback for 3 rounds....At 7 PM HR came and said they would revert in a week for details on further process.
2 weeks passed, but no update from HR. When I followed up, HR said that the team is currently not hiring.
I don't know, why would they conduct interview in such a case. Or at least the HR, should have had the courtesy of reverting about the same.
I would advise to not to go for hiring drives. If you are going and all rounds do not get completed on the same day, then do not think that further rounds are going to happen.
In hiring drives HR's intention is to just get as many people for the interview.
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.