I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Beijing, Beijing) in Feb 2022
Interview
I was interviewed by Microsoft China, software engineer new grad full time position at STCA (software technology center Asia).
HR first will connect you on Wechat if you are Chinese person. Then two rounds of interview with current employee. Note that the interview are in Chinese. I didn't expect that since all job descriptions and interview confirmation are in English.
Two rounds of interview include resume digging questions and coding questions. They don't have a collaborative coding platform, so you have to write your code on your local IDE. They expect you to code alone and quitely without discussion with them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Resume digging. The first interviewer asks some knowledge that a college graduate can't answer (you can only expose to that after get into industry).
One coding question is about variation of two sum.
The other coding question is about rotated sorted array.
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