I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2015
Interview
It was described to me to be split into three parts. First of all there was a quick chat with the recruiter who basically digested the CV with me as reference so that he could then present it to the hiring manager. The hiring manager was interested and then there was a telephone interview organised. This was mostly just a general chat about experience and then a very small technical element. Unfortunately I was super super prepared for a problem solving question but he simply asked "How does the internet work?", which took me completely by surprised and I answered terribly. Still I personally am not sure about asking that question for someone who is all about problem solving. Also its a question that could be answered after about 5 minutes of Google-ing!
With regards to the recruiter though, he was excellent, super responsive and eager to help!
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026
Interview
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.