I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in May 2019
Interview
Interview with Microsoft (office 365 Hyderabad team) at their Bengaluru office.
Hi, I am a backend developer with 8 years of hands-on experience. One of the HR person from Microsoft approached me to check if I am interested in an opportunity with them, I was told that there will be total four rounds on the same day, 3 rounds followed by hiring manager round.
All the interviewers gave me enough time to ask questions, except the HM. They have been polite and calm all the time. Overall it was a great experience.
I have been to all the rounds and within two days I got a standard rejection mail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1:
2 interviewers in the panel, one was asking questions other was making notes on his laptop
Asked about my past projects, as soon as I mentioned “NoSQL/Cassandra” he asked:
• What’s NoSQL?
• Why you chose it over RDBMS?
• What can NoSQL achieve that RDBMS can not?
• Write code to find max sum subarray in a given array.
• Given a sorted array of integers with size n, find if there exists a number that is repeated at least n/4 times, n is length of array. Time complexity should be less than O(n). Explain approach and write code.
Initially I was asked to code in any language but later they kept me from writing scala code and ask me to write in other language, I wrote in Java.
Round 2:
A senior guy from PowerPoint mobile app team interviewed me.
• Given a circular LinkedList which is sorted, Given a node of this LL and an integer, WAP to insert the item in the LL so that the LL remains sorted after insertion, handle all edge cases.
• One more question that I forgot.
Round 3:
A lady (very senior) from Excel online team interviewed me.
• Same questions about NoSQL as in round 1.
• Given a list of train schedules (arrival and departure time), find the minimum number of platforms required to run the trains. Write a program.
• Design a phone book. Follow up: how do you store and retrieve data in Trie data structure?
Lunch Break!
Round 4 (HM round):
Very senior guy working on a instant messenger product.
• How have your other rounds been?
• Asked about my past projects, as I mentioned “NoSQL/Cassandra” he asked the same questions as in round 1.
• OO design of an elevator. Write interfaces and implementation and logic. Some questions on testing.
• Why you want to leave your current job?
• Why Microsoft?
• He told me about how they decide which team to deploy a new joiner in?
1 Technical Screen, Leetcode Hard question about Graphs. Interview loop over two days, 4 rounds. 3 rounds had Leetcode Medium/Hard along with System Design questions and behavioral. Manger round was mostly behavioral along with a design question. DSA went well but the design questions were not upto the mark.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Australind) in Apr 2024
Interview
online coding，regrex expression，computer network。some system design。focus on bug free and comnunication skill. very tough question，corner case should be considered. good interviewer they are kind and give me a lot of hint
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
The process was very simple. Recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. Finished the online coding assessment.
From there a Microsoft Hiring Event day was scheduled.
Interview was pretty simple, Straight up leetcode. didn't even change the examples.
1st interview was medium leetcode. When I solved it in 15 mins, 2nd question was asked, After that a behavioral. This interview was finished in under 40 minutes
2nd interviewer asked a very common leetcode question. He asked me if I saw that question on leetcode. when I solved that he asked me to optimize it which I did. And then a behavioral.
3rd interview was OOD after a behavioral question. The interviewer did not ask any follow up questions. This interview was finished in under 40 minutes.
4th interview was a Tree based question which was also solved in the most optimal way. Interviewer mentioned that he has very less experience in java and couldn't understand some of the code. No follow up questions. there was another behavioral question. This interview was also done in 40 minutes.
When i checked with recruiter I was told that I was rejected. I was very confident about this interview. I still don't understand why I was rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic leetcode questions. All of them were from Explore section of Microsoft.
