I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Australia Plains) in Apr 2026
Interview
Step 0: the recruiter sends you an email for scheduling a call with her/him + technical topics to be covered by 3 short questions asked by the hiring team
Step 1: HR call - describing the role and team. and asks 3 technical questions
Step 2: Coding interview with one of the engineers in the team. The live coding is taking place in HackerRank - LC questions. Make sure you are familiar with the platform. There are NO examples in the interview itself
Unfortunately, my interviewer confused me with the examples, and I couldn't really understand which rate limiter implementation is required (fixed, window, sliding window, token bucket etc.)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What is a WebSocket, when do you use it, and how is it diff from an HTTP call?
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