I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
I interviewed with the Platform Intelligence team for a senior software engineer position. After applying I was sent a 75 minute take home test where I had to correct a small program and then write a leetcode medium style solution from scratch.
After passing that, I got scheduled for an "interview day" the next tuesday. It was a 4 interview on-site. If you look up microsoft onsite, it was exactly as described. 3 coding/systems design and one "as-appropriate". The coding problems were reasonable and I liked the interviewers. The as-appropriate went into excruciating detail on a "time you disagreed with a coworker" question.
I got an offer like 3 or 4 business days later for 62 (which levels.fyi says is SDE II, but the recruiter told me is a sr. role).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker technically. (Then many, maaany in-depth followup questions).
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026
Interview
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.