I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2021
Interview
There were two rounds of interviews. The first round was an over the phone interview with a university recruiter and contained questions about my resume as well as basic coding theory questions. The second round consisted of two interviews with different people. The first interview was a brain teaser with no coding, and the second interview was the coding interview. I thought I did really bad during both, but still got a job offer!
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1. How would you explain recursion to a five-year-old?
2. A person has 3000 bananas and a camel. The person wants to transport the maximum number of bananas to a destination which is 1000 KMs away, using only the camel as a mode of transportation. The camel cannot carry more than 1000 bananas at a time and eats a banana every km it travels. What is the maximum number of bananas that can be transferred to the destination using only camel (no other mode of transportation is allowed).
The hiring process started with an online assessment that focused on problem-solving and coding skills.
After passing the assessment, I was invited to a series of 3 back-to-back technical interviews.
Each interview was primarily centered around data structures and algorithms, with questions similar in style and difficulty to LeetCode problems.
Interviewers also evaluated problem-solving approach, code quality, and the ability to explain thought processes clearly while coding.
Overall, the process was structured, technical, and heavily focused on algorithmic problem solving and communication skills.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Mar 2026
Interview
Interviewer was intrested in my Open source work for first 25 min where I told him about my GSoC work which was about decompression and asked a simple dsa question about trees. And asked follow ups like print it without storing it in a vector of vector.
2 45 min back to back with leetcode and behavioral questions. Wasn’t too bad just tagged will help and be prepared for resume grill. Review resume fully and should be ok
