I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Took an online assesment and got an hr interview afterwards, did not pass the hr interview. online coding assesment was rather easy and was repetetive from what my friends got for the same interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given a 0-indexed integer array stones sorted in strictly increasing order representing the positions of stones in a river.
A frog, initially on the first stone, wants to travel to the last stone and then return to the first stone. However, it can jump to any stone at most once.
The length of a jump is the absolute difference between the position of the stone the frog is currently on and the position of the stone to which the frog jumps.
More formally, if the frog is at stones[i] and is jumping to stones[j], the length of the jump is |stones[i] - stones[j]|.
The cost of a path is the maximum length of a jump among all jumps in the path.
Return the minimum cost of a path for the frog.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
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.
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