I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2017
Interview
On-campus interview was easy, we talked about my favorite classes and projects, then went over a coding question. I interviewed with the Microsoft Edge team, every interviewer didn't know Python, and expected C/C++, which I hadn't touched in a year or so. I was able to solve the problems up until the hiring manager interview. He gave a low-level question which required knowledge about assembly architecture, which I did not know. I don't understand why Microsoft chose for me to interview with this team, but oh well.
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