I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lakhnau) in Jan 2026
Interview
The OA was simple. There were two interview rounds. The interview focused on problem solving, logical puzzles, and some system design concepts like caching and database optimization.The HR round had one dsa , one behavourial and one os based question. The interviewers were friendly and the difficulty level was moderate.
Interview questions [6]
Question 1
1. Find pairs with minimum absolute difference in an array (Closest latency spikes).
HR ROUND
Strengths and Weaknesses
Cooredinates of two rectangles are given how would you find if they intersect or not
how to make your system crash using code.
A leetcode style test with three problems, then three interviews with different managers ( for each it was a coding problem and behavioral questions). Each interview was 1 hour long
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do I react and handle a conflict situation at work
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.