I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2021
Interview
Initially I had a recruiter call, she was really good to me.
I was asked to complete a take home online coding assessment test using Codility, got through that stage.
Then I was scheduled for a 4 one-hour interviews back to back on a single day. 3 of them were a combination of some behavioral and a couple coding questions each
2 interviewers were really good. But the other two were so rude and condescending. When I was answering something/suggesting an approach they were dictating to me that they do not want that answer. Unprofessionals do not understand that interview need to be a conversation and not an interrogation. I was left intimidated and was so pissed off by the end of interview.
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.