I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Aug 2015
Interview
There were rounds.Round zero was an online coding test with 2 questions First round was Group fly after resume shortlisting. Rest three were technical interviews. The last round also had some HR questions asked. Most of the questions were asked from DSA and operating systems. The entire process was over in one day.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Round 1(Group fly): Write a program to check whether a given sentence is Word palindrome or not. First word and last words should be same and so on. For example, "Leaf is leaf" is a word palindrome. "Leaf is a leaf" is not.
Round 2: Write a program to find the median of two sorted arrays of size m and n. If the number of elements are odd, output single median, otherwise output average of the two medians.
Round 3: I was asked to implement an LRU cache. It should have O(1) insertion, deletion and updation and accesing an elememt in cache should also be O(1) time.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
The interview was a long process. There was first the recruiter screen, which was followed by a 4-loop interview structure that covered technical, behavioral, and system design. The interviewers were very kind and accommodating.
Difficult interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in Jun 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa
