I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2025
Interview
The process consisted of three onsite interviews
A code review and behavioral interview
A C# technical interview with 2 coding problems (leetcode style) and a few .NET-related questions
A data structures and systems-oriented interview plus some computer science fundamentals
The questions were well balanced between real world problem solving and algorithmic thinking. No trick questions or puzzles.
Interviewers were experienced engineers who cared about how you think, not just whether you get the “right” answer
Finally, there was an AA(As Appropriate) interview with the HM. They went over my CV, asked both behavioral and technical questions. We then moved to a system design problem and wrapped it up with questions regarding the team etc.
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
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