I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2025
Interview
This was one of the more strange and impersonal interview experiences Ive had. Recruiter reached out via email and the typical recruiter screening was just done through email. They then scheduled the next interview for me without confirming my availability, and no information was provided on what that interview round covered.
Only to discover it was a leetcode style interview with another engineer, which was OK, but the interviewer was quite rude and was not receptive to questions.
Overall negative experience, and turned me off of wanting to work at Microsoft in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Traverse binary tree to find leaf nodes in a particular order
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