I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sept 2025
No offer
Neutral experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2021
Interview
The first 30 min interview, was easy because they only wanted pseudo code. The interviewer was nice and typed in a question so he made it came up with it while on the call. The final rounds came directly from leetcode like exactly copy and pasted with exact examples.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create a new list with the sum of the two given lists, then a power of x^y question, find the sum of the longest substring, 2D array matrix question (rotate 90 degrees), the last one was related to creating a class for two points and t ( linear equation). Was not expecting that one.
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