I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
Initial phone interview for half an hour about SDE SDET and PM questions.
Final round was at Redmond. 3 rounds of coding interviews each for 45 minutes. Each one focuses on 1 of the 3 questions.
(There was a gathering event the night before the interview. We were able to meet and chat with other interviewees, former interviewees and interviewers.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical questions were not hard.
One of the testing questions were : You are given a Cartesian plane and there is this program to compute the distance between two points. Use ten pairs of points to test it.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.