I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Patiala)
Interview
Online test consisted of three questions to be solved in 1.5 hours. Trim a BST, pattern matching and non repeating character.
68 students were shortlisted out of 250 and there was another test conducted on paper. We were asked to solve 2 DP problems: number of deletions required in an array to make it sorted in increasing order and word break problem. There was a group discussion round after this where we were given a problem and we had to come up with plausible approaches to solve the problem as a part of the discussion. After this round there were 3 rounds of technical interviews and 1 HR interview.
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.
45 mins technical interview with a member of their San fran team. Very relaxed and informal but questions were focused and lots of follow ups. Easy to schedule as was over video conferencing platform
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.