I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2025
Interview
The process consisted of three onsite interviews
A code review and behavioral interview
A C# technical interview with 2 coding problems (leetcode style) and a few .NET-related questions
A data structures and systems-oriented interview plus some computer science fundamentals
The questions were well balanced between real world problem solving and algorithmic thinking. No trick questions or puzzles.
Interviewers were experienced engineers who cared about how you think, not just whether you get the “right” answer
Finally, there was an AA(As Appropriate) interview with the HM. They went over my CV, asked both behavioral and technical questions. We then moved to a system design problem and wrapped it up with questions regarding the team etc.
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.
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