I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tallinn) in May 2022
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. Then the recruiter set me up with a virtual interview. The interview was conducted in 4 parts. Behavioral, coding, system design and code architecture. The first three interview I did was ok. The interviewers were friendly. However the final interview which was the coding interview was horrible. For some reason the interviewer was irritated by me since I couldn’t understand the question. The question wasn’t clear enough. Anyway I tried understand she was rude. I was actually thinking maybe the color of my skin irritated her.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a chat application. For the system design interview.
For the code architecture design a vending machine
And for the coding interview I didn’t understand so I don’t remember
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
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026
Interview
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.
