I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Berlin) in May 2020
Interview
I applied to an ad for Berlin, and I have learned later that this ad was for multiple locations in Europe and there were no open positions for Berlin.
They contacted me with an email to have a quick phone screen almost a month later. Then after that they've sent a codility test. Which I've passed easily.
After the codility test they set up 4 interviews as a "hiring event". And due to COVID-19 all was to be done online. The day before one of the interviews were cancelled. And I had completed other three interviews. But didn't get a feedback for 10 days.
After that I have emailed to the recruiter about feedback on the interview. She told me that she has moved to other projects and another person will contact me about it.
After another week I was called by another recruiter and he said that feedback from that 3 interview was positive and they want to have a replacement interview for the cancelled one. And I will be contacted for that interview in a couple of days.
Two weeks passed and there were no contact. And I did not remember the name of the new recruiter and did not have his email but used the contact recruiter button on the Microsoft Action Center and asked them about this interview. That was almost a month ago and MS did not contact me since.
It's been almost 5 months since I applied and almost a month and a half since last contact I have received from MS. And I am really dissapointed how unprofessionally handled my process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a Library. (Not a SW library, a library for books)
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.