I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
After initial screening interview, I was invited to a full day of interviews on spot. It took place on a working day. I was interviewed by 5 people. I found this all being way too much for one hiring process. The interviewers were very nice though and I had a lunch with local manager. Most of interviews were standard engineering questions. Last interview I personally completely disliked, because it was not so much of a technical one, but obscure task that had no right or wrong answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe sorting algorithms you know.
Construct a linked list
Last and obscure question: imagine you have an island and have task to fit an airport with 4 runways on it. How would you start? (Not sure how this shows if I am a good engineer or not)
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.