I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2019
Interview
Behavioral Interview over the phone went really well. A lot of questions were based around my experiences and what I might be able to add to their team.
The next step of the interview was the code interview. It seemed hectic as there was around 35 applicants that were interviewing that day, so the interviewing period seemed a little rushed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Q: what is a situation where you've had to make a hard decision? (i.e. two people have different ideas on how to take a project).
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)
The hiring process consists of a HackerRank home exam, followed by three technical interviews covering LeetCode-style problems and system architecture. Once this is done, you will have a final HR interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had a technical interview where I was asked to solve the classic 'Climbing Stairs' problem (LeetCode #70), which is a dynamic programming question based on the Fibonacci sequence.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Jun 2026
Interview
The process started with an online HackerRank assessment. The main coding question involved partitioning an array of server capacities into K contiguous groups while minimizing the maximum group sum. The solution required binary search on the answer combined with a greedy validation function. The assessment focused on algorithms, problem solving, and time complexity analysis.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array representing server capacities and an integer K, divide the array into K contiguous groups such that the largest group sum is minimized. Return the minimum possible value of the maximum group sum.