I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Jan 2023
Interview
There were three interviews on the same day for about 50 minutes and 10-minute break, the interview can usually be code interview or a system design interview, or if you are luck enough behavior.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The design question was easy but the interviewer always wanted more of it, the question was how to handle online and offline status on mobile devices but it is more complex than you imagine. The programming question was a binary tree in steroids because unless you mastered binary tree mechanics you would never be able to answer that, and the last question was something like Two Sum, or Three Sum, but mixed with String manipulation and conversion to integer back and forth.
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.
