I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2025
Interview
I was referred to the position.
3 days after applying I received an invitation for an online coding assessment using the Codility platform, which had 2 medium code challenges.
A few days after completing the test, I received an invitation for an online technical interview day a week later, which contained 3 interviews with short breaks between them, where I was asked a couple of code questions, along with questions regarding projects on my CV
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In any language you want, write a queue using only stacks.
3 rounds of leetcode medium, 2 questions were very easy, the last one was really hard (it was a binary tree question). They asked about space and time complexity. In terms of structures it was straight forward but the question itself was hard
Behavioural round consisted of "Tell me about yourself and why you wanna work for microsoft and resume screening. And technical interview consisted of 2 LC question 1 medium and 1 easy.
straightforward. directly jumped into data structure and algorithm and then a few fundamental computer science questions especially database management system and operating system then 2 or 3 questions related to resume.
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