I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Washington, DC) in Oct 2025
Interview
online application
I received inmail from a recruiter at microsoft through linkedin which has the job description and link to apply and i directly applied through that link.
Initial Screening
I receive mail from recruiter and asked about NP ,work experiance, invited for a meet
Genral discussion on current work experiance and College education, my preffered programming language
Experiance working on C++,multithreading
the HR told that the process will involve 3 rounds ,2 technical and one managerial which will be based on DSA and problem solving
Technical Round
Duration 45 minutes, one dsa question medium leetcode
meeting held on Microsoft teams
formal introduction
Length of Longest substring without repeating characters
First i solved with bruteforce than optimize solution
Challenges - execute given test cases and all should pass with correct output.
Technical Round
Duration : 1 hour
Meeting held on Micrsoft Teams
formal introduction
Asked: 1 Dsa question , 1 Debugging , 1 problem from GIT topic
Solve - Find repeating and missing number in array
I give a solution with hashmap and then Optimized Approach with O(1) Space complexity.
Debug - Find repeating elements from two arrays
merge conflict question with given parameters by interviewer, how to solve when same line of code already created by user1 and merged and if 2nd person still working on problems and have different code on same line, then how to solve the merge conflict
I have solved both question related to DSA, but unable to explain for GIT merge conflict properly
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa