I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2019
Interview
I applied online through the Microsoft website as a new/recent graduate. Then I received an invite after about a week for a 30 min phone screen with a recruiter. The recruiter had a list of behavioral questions, and asked me to describe a technical project I had done.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the difference between good code and great code?
What's your favorite Microsoft product? How would you improve it?
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