I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bhubaneshwar) in Feb 2019
Interview
Round 1 : Online Test
Test was conducted on Mettl. Test consist 3 Questions. All three questions were easy level.Those who solved at-least 2 or 1 and half questions were called for interview.
Round 2 : Pen Paper Coding Round
Microsoft conducted its interview process at around 8 centers across the country. I was called at Bhubaneshwar (ITER College). Around 50 Candidates from nearby region appeared for process. We were given 1 question (Removing duplicates from singly linked list) and 30 mIn to solve it. We supposed to write the code(in any language) . Judging criteria was how clean your code is, commenting, test cases etc.
20 students were shortlisted for interview round including me 🙂
Round 3 : Personal Interview
Interview started with some questions from my resume, about my projects, some real life applications of ML algorithms i have used. Then he asked me a simple question related to arrays(that i dont remember). After that he asked about basic OOPS related questions. Then he asked me to design microsoft search engine Bing. I was supposed to give appropriate classes and functions required to implement a Search Engine followed by some test cases. At last he gave me a situation that if i was given some work which i am unable to complete and deadline is approaching, what will i do .Also the only person who can help me is out of reach.
I was eliminated after this round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Removing duplicates from singly linked list
OOPS related questions
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 college or 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.
