I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Feb 2026
Interview
Two DSA problems: LRU Cache+HLD on the same and Vector implementation using Arrays using pointer arithmetic and heap allocation in C++. The interviewers were really friendly and fun but I never got a feedback for my interview loop till now.
Three technical rounds after the initial phone screen and take home coding test.
HLD: design a booking system for movie tickets DSA: two simple (LC easy) string based questions LLD: movie ticket booking system (same as HLD) but at a granular level involving designing and implementing classes, interfaces and methods.
I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2026
Interview
1 initial coding round followed by virtual onsite which can be scheduled immediately or up to two weeks later after the initial coding round- The virtual onsite consisted of the following rounds which were the following- Coding , System Design , behavioral,