I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2017
Interview
Spoke with a software engineer at my university's career fair. Invited to 30-minute interview on university campus where we went over my resume and a coding question, average difficulty. Received final round invite within a week.
Final round @ Redmond HQ. Breakfast, 45-min interview, 15-min break, repeated 4 times. Each interview was roughly half resume & behavioral, half coding. First three rounds were relatively easy and the interviewers were very friendly, but the final interview was very hard and the interviewer was very unfriendly. To conclude, we were invited to lunch in the massive employee cafeteria. Received offer within a week.
Communication was confusing and vague. Each step of the process was handled by a different recruiter and several emails were never replied to, including when they made errors with my travel itinerary. In total, I think the process put me through 4-5 recruiters.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa