I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2015
Interview
I was given a phone interview through an employee referral. After a couple of weeks, I was contacted about setting up an onsite interview at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. On interview day, I had five interviews that were both technical and behavioral including one lunch interview. There were CTCI questions for the most part, and the interviewers would help you along if you were stuck. I did decent on the technical aspect but definitely did not ace the interviews. The interviewers also were very interested in discussing their work and seeing your passion for technology. Afterwards, I was sent back to the recruitment building and told to expect results within a week. 3 business days later I received an email stating that I had been given an offer and a phone call with details. Overall great experience, and the interviewers were the best I've ever had.
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Question 1
Standard questions on binary trees, hashmaps, recursion, etc.
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
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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.
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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.