I submitted a resume while at the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference. A recruiter emailed me shortly after, followed by a brief, fairly straightforward phone interview. This was followed by an invitation to fly out to Redmond for a day of in-person interviews. (Note to other applicants: that particular email was misclassified as spam by my email provider! The words “Microsoft,” “job,” and all of the all-caps text related to flight details was enough to set off the spam filter.) The day of interviews was long, but surprisingly fun. I was interviewed by members from a few different teams, so the day didn’t drag – there was always something new to talk about.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given two nodes in a directed graph represented by singly linked nodes, provide an algorithm for finding the nearest common ancestor. In fact, provide as many different algorithms as you can, giving different trade-offs between time and space requirements (in big-O notation).
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
The interview was a long process. There was first the recruiter screen, which was followed by a 4-loop interview structure that covered technical, behavioral, and system design. The interviewers were very kind and accommodating.
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