I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Aug 2025
Interview
Asked about past experience and resume. Questioned on my experience on large-scale distributed system and thought it's not "large" enough. Other questions are normal BQ.
Came to the coding part at half-way for a 45-min tech screen. I have a bad feeling when he said coding as the remaining time is not long. The coding question is, given a valid BST, a target value and a target distance k, find all nodes having a distance k with the node having the target value in the BST, both parent and child nodes count, disregard for output order. I spent the rest of time but didn't work this out.
After looking up afterwards this seems to be a mid-to-hard lc problem. I don't think 20 min would be enough to come up with the correct solution and code for anyone who's not lc pro..
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Question 1
Asked my experience on large-scale distributed system as they are from Azure.
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
