I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2025
Interview
This was one of the more strange and impersonal interview experiences Ive had. Recruiter reached out via email and the typical recruiter screening was just done through email. They then scheduled the next interview for me without confirming my availability, and no information was provided on what that interview round covered.
Only to discover it was a leetcode style interview with another engineer, which was OK, but the interviewer was quite rude and was not receptive to questions.
Overall negative experience, and turned me off of wanting to work at Microsoft in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Traverse binary tree to find leaf nodes in a particular order
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.
