I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Applied online
Resume shortlisted
Got call from recruiter for a screening round. You are asked about your project and career profile.
Screening cleared and you are asked to give your interview availability schedule.
Gave them few dates and time.
All of this process is through mail only.
They sent invite for the interview but the interviewer didn't join. I sent them mail for same and was told will be rescheduled.
Rescheduled 1 st technical round - asked about my profile and experience. Technical question
Round 2 - Focussed more on DSA
Interview gave me a live DSA coding problem. It was a bit complicated to understand as when I questioned interviewer. He wasn't able to give me a proper understanding of it. Anyhow tried to solve it but was unsuccessful. Though after some time interviewer was giving hints on to solve but still I failed.
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
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
