I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2013
Interview
Had an interview on telephone from a recruiting manager. She asked me about basic data structures, work experience related questions and a puzzle. After a couple of weeks i was informed that i am to go onsite for interview. Interview day was a chaos, we didn know when we are supposed to reach the office so got to office at 7AM seeing glassdoor reviews. The HR apologized as she forgot to send mail about interview and they started off the interview process at 9AM. Four rounds of interview and all technical. We were taken for lunch post interviews and escorted back to the hotel. Late night at 11PM i got a mail saying i was not selected.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
The hiring manager wanted me to critisize the microsoft products. I was caught off gaurd at this.
Given a string check for palindrome. If it is not a palindrome add characters at end or start of the string to make it palindrome and return the string.
Having 5 columns of data in a flat file where an application would query on any of the five columns or in combination, the records are in millions, how would you design the structure to hold data and retrieve the data.
I applied through university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.