I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Jan 2026
Interview
At first, I received an online algorithm task via hacker rank, one medium, one hard. Afterwards i had a quick chat with a recruiter.
After passing these, i was scheduled 4 back top back interviews lasting for 45 minutes with 15 minutes pause. On all of these, you start by talking about your previous experience and afterwards there are practical/techical questions.
The first one had OOP design, second was behavioral interview, third algorithm on HackerRank, the fourth was a system design.
The technical questions were not that hard at all, i failed because i expected them to be much harder and my brain found complexity when there was none
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would I design a scheduler service in distributed environment.
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.