The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Prague) in Feb 2022
Interview
There were 2 main interviews. One with technical lead and architect where we went through C++ code where I was asked to do the PR review. And one architecture exercise - design social media platform similar to Twitter
Second interview were to check my mamnagment skill and how I would tackkle different situations in the team, manage conflicts, supervise people with different seniority level
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Review pull request where simple parsing method was introduced to existing class
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Barcelona) in May 2026
Interview
Panel-style loop: recruiter screen, hiring manager conversation, then rounds on technical/architectural leadership, execution at scale, people leadership, cross-functional influence, and culture values, STAR-format behavioral throughout.
The interviewers were not English native speakers so it wasn’t easy to understand them fully, completely red flag as I would work with them!
3 Algo & Data structure questions and 1 design question. The questions needed you to understand patterns more than actual coding. Eg. When to buy and sell stocks. The interviewer can advance the question to with or without cool down
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When to buy and sell stocks?
Write clean code decoupling functions...
Either resumes are filtered by a glitchy software or by incompetent and clueless recruiters.
I have 20 years of experience in managing engineers but 5 minutes after I applied for the job I got an email saying that I didn’t have enough experience. What a joke!