I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2021
Interview
Interview process took a long time (2-3 months) but everyone I spoke to was very nice and super helpful.
Use Microsoft ressources, learn more about the company, growth mindset mentality.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tech Phone Screen:
What's the difference between a thread and a process
Describe a Microsoft product you like / how you would make it better
Explain recursion to a child
Why Microsoft --
Final Rounds:
2 OOD questions
1 string compression
Matrix Heap Exercise
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Three rounds - Includes Behavioral, Technical and a Bar Raiser Round.
Asked questions from my resume started with basic system designing and explored my knowledge in system design using microservices architecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed Systems LLD Designing. Programming question random
Started with phone screening it went well then headed to a full loop of 3 rounds. Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past college project and a technical challenge I faced.
Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Firstly Phone Interview * 1
Then on-site interview *3
Finally interview with Team Lead
Each interview has live coding problems included
Merely no behavior questions
all in Chinese, but one interviewer requested an english introduction
The interview process went very quickly
Interviewers were nice and polite