I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Mar 2008
Interview
I met an employee during a campus visit in November of 2007. When someone in her team was looking for an intern, she recommended that he call me. I received an email from her colleague in March of 2008 requesting a phone interview, and he interviewed me on the phone 2 days later. He offered me the job, again over the phone, 4 days after our interview.
During the interview, we talked about my approach to research, my experience writing code, my expectations for an internship during graduate school. I was not asked to solve any specific problems but I was asked to provide examples of both my academic and technical work. The interview was more like a conversation than like an interview. He did tell me that being recommended by one of his colleagues was a big boost for me.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.