I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Portland, OR) in Aug 2025
Interview
There were 5 interviews and 4 of the interviewers were late. It was never acknowledged. The technical portions seemed to have specific solutions in mind rather than a discussion about approaches.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to define a naming convention for blob storage and then write a function to get blobs from certain date ranges
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