I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2021
Interview
The interview process was standard.
This requirement was for Azure team
The first round consisted of a medium-level LC coding problem and some OS related questions. I was able to solve the problem and run through test cases but took few mins to debug for a particular test case. So the feedback was borderline.
The second round had some project-related questions, scenario-based questions, and one medium LC problem. The feedback was good.
The third round consisted of a system design problem. Although, I covered the all the points but the interviewer was expecting some more details especially around the services. The feedback was borderline.
- The second and third round feedback seemed fair. I still didn't understand why the first round feedback was borderline.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1:
1. Given a boolean 2D matrix, find the number of islands.
2. Some multithreading related questions.
3. difference between process and thread.
4. 32 and 64 processor working.
5. Inter thread communication techniques.
Round 2:
1. Some project-related questions.
2. Some scenarios based questions.
3. Given two strings S1 and S2, return true if S2 contains the permutation of s1. If S1's permutation is the substring of S2.
Round 3:
- Design an Auto-Scale System. Design the system on a high level completely. Design api, database, services, components etc.
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.