It started of well with basic questions without even an Intro, deep dived into more of database systems and much looking for a candidate who knows everything with 10+ years of experience but the job role says 4+ YOE where the interviewer feels 4+ YOE is Junior role. The role expectations are straight away join the team, do the POC's within 2 months of joining who knows all about Azure Cloud, All Databases with well experienced in. solved a sql query at the end while last 10 mins was how to make a person feel low on confidence with free tips. the questions are from LAST CHAPTER of DATABASE SYSTEMS book. The interviewer doesn't know anything when cross questioned or explained.
Got for Next round but I refused as the interviewer was giving free life advices and tried to made me feel that I'm not well experienced. toxic manager though!!!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Basic questions with deep diving examples
2) 1 SQL Query [LC Medium]
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.