I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2025
Interview
Overall an attainable interview process. Had the standard 3 DS rounds and 1 design round. All of them felt attainable with a bit more practice. Got the sense that the team was being built organically for one of their AI divisions from scratch and felt like it was a good opportunity to join a large scale company.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Oct 2015
Interview
two telephonic discussions (Skype) with coding test. First round was bit okay as he asked to code two algorithms and few questions on cloud and threading. He explained about team and product. Later HR called me and told that first round is set of mixed feedback and they want to check my design skills as interviewer is not happy on it. In second round they asked to find duplicate in a string and I did that. Unfortunately few boundary conditions failed and I was not able to complete everything in 40 mins he allowed. He said I want to leave and cut the call without asking anything. So far no reply from them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview was for Azure team (Cloud and Enterprise) so mostly on cloud questions
Threading
C++11 related (Atomicity, volatile)
Design questions
AABBCCCCD -> A2B2C4D (Inplace string editing to find duplicates)