I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Apr 2026
Interview
I had 1 screening round and then 3 back to back same-day rounds. The 30 min screening was a shallow dive into one of my resume projects and then a short case study on classification modeling. The subsequent 3 rounds were resume grilling, behvioral and live coding respectively.
The resume grill was a deep dive into a research project and then follow up questions on applications, the behvaioral round involved a set of non-conventional questions (like how would you ask a senior/colleague for help, how do you use AI based tools in your work, etc) and live coding was implementing a 2D conv operation. These 3 rounds were 45 mins each.
The entire process took 2 weeks.
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Overall there were three Rounds of Interview
1st round there are question regarding basic Ml and i have been given to write the loss function and logistic regression through NUmpy
2nd round there were questions regarding Projects mentioned and one coding question easy to medium
also some question regarding LLM
3rd round is HR round where they test your team skills
5 interviews - hiring manager, resume walkthrough , behavioral questions, coding questions leetcode medium, behavioral, resume and projects related questions , RLHF methods, designing eval pipeline, ML algorithms, MCP , DDP, FSDP , A/B testing, data science questions, designing end to end ai systems
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