HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bucharest, Bucuresti) in Oct 2025
Interview
4 round gauntlet with DSA, OOP, system design and behavioral questions. The weird part is that you have behavioral questions mixed into each round, plus a dedicated behavioral round at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA was an easy - medium binary tree problem, but a non-standard one, oop was an implementation of a small util library. System design was a problem of migrating a complex backend from on-prem to cloud.