I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jan 2010
Interview
Microsoft IT, Hyderabad came on my college campus providing internship to selected students. A quick elimination in written test was followed by 4 rounds of interview ( 3 tech + 1 hr).
Interview for college students is not herculean hard. Stick to basics - data structures, OS, OOP, databases. Be sure that you know A-Z of everything you mentioned on your resume.
I did get selected as an intern for 8 weeks at MS IT, Hyd. The work culture is awesome, with all the perks you can wish for including pool tables, tt, free beverages and such. The people of team that I joined were supportive and the work cut out for me was definitive. So just worry on how to get there, and not on what will you do once you are there.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
You have a machine that can create anything. You just have to specify the details, and voila, it will give you the output. Design test cases for such a machine
Two airline companies, Kingfisher and Jet airways want to do a merger. Design a database migration scheme, so that no inconsistencies and redundancy occur. Assume suitable data and brief on the problems you might face.
Problem of concurrent transactions done by two persons of a joint account at two different ATM Machines. How is it managed without introducing any inconsistency in balance of the account holders?
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.