I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Applied online
Resume shortlisted
Got call from recruiter for a screening round. You are asked about your project and career profile.
Screening cleared and you are asked to give your interview availability schedule.
Gave them few dates and time.
All of this process is through mail only.
They sent invite for the interview but the interviewer didn't join. I sent them mail for same and was told will be rescheduled.
Rescheduled 1 st technical round - asked about my profile and experience. Technical question
Round 2 - Focussed more on DSA
Interview gave me a live DSA coding problem. It was a bit complicated to understand as when I questioned interviewer. He wasn't able to give me a proper understanding of it. Anyhow tried to solve it but was unsuccessful. Though after some time interviewer was giving hints on to solve but still I failed.
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