I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Chennai) in Sep 2015
Interview
Written Test and Technical interview. They conducted written test in HackerRank and an hour duration. Interviewers are very friendly and given hints to me while solving problems. Written Test and Technical interview. They conducted written test in HackerRank and an hour duration. Interviewers are very friendly and given hints to me while solving problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Written test:
They conducted written test in HackerRank and an hour duration. They asked me to implement the functions for the following two problems.
1) Maximum product Sum of an Array.
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/maximum-product-subarray/
2) Building bridges problem.
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dynamic-programming-set-14-variations-of-lis/
Technical Interview 1:
He is very friendly and given hints to me while solving problems.
1) First he asked me about an overview of my current project then most challenging thing faced in the project. After my response, he asked me what you learnt from that challenging thing.
2) Given an array of integers of the size of n, it contains zeros in random positions, we need to move all zeros to end of the array in a single scan without extra space.
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/move-zeroes-end-array/
3) Merging point of two linked lists.
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/merge-two-sorted-linked-lists/
4) questions related to programming languages
a) about inheritance
b) about classes and interfaces
c) abstract classes and virtual functions, ...
5) He given a situation and asked me to design required classes and functions which are useful to program that situation.
6) The last question is given a number we need to find the next nearest number in 2^n.
input: 127 output: 128
input: 129 output: 256
Technical Interview 2:
He asked me very simple questions, but he wants to cover each and every corner case.
1) Reverse group of elements in a linked list
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/reverse-a-list-in-groups-of-given-size/
2) perform push,pop and min operations of stack in O(1) time.
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-and-implement-special-stack-data-structure/
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa