I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2014
Interview
Gave my resume to a recruiter at a campus info session and got an email about 2 weeks later telling me to sign up for an on campus interview. Despite getting the only technical question wrong, I got an on site interview. The on site interview consisted for 4 technical interviews. It might be because I'm a sophomore, but the questions weren't very hard. All of them were about arrays, strings, or linked lists. I made a few mistakes, so I didn't end up getting an offer.
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.