I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sept 2025
No offer
Positive experience
Easy interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Got a referral end of October and got email inviting me to an on campus interview at my university about a month later. On campus interview pretty easy question. About 3-4 hours after my 8am on campus interview, got an email inviting me to the Superday. Superday was on Thursday and consisted of 4 back to back interviews with members of the same team. My interviewers were 3 engineers and 1 manager. All questions leetcode easy/medium. Google and FB phone screens were more difficult than the Microsoft onsite. Unlike Google, amazon, & fb, you are directly compared to the other 7 people the team you’re interviewing with also interviews that day. Team is probably hiring 1-2 new grads so if someone answers a question slightly better or is more likable as a person you probably won’t get it. I personally thought I did really well, one of the best final round interviews I’ve ever given. I answered every question correctly with time left. However, another candidates may have been more charismatic or something. Got a generic email rejection the following Monday and they provided no feedback. Process was super organized and they gave us a stipend for lunch in the cafeteria after interviews ended
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement queue using stacks, sort array, check is string is valid isbn, hashmap question storing phone contacts
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