Interview Experience Analysis for Microsoft

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135
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Microsoft Interview Experiences

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Microsoft SE2 (L61) Interview Experience — Offer Received (Jan 2026)

MicrosoftSE2 (L61)📍 Hyderabad💼 4 YOE

Summary

I received an offer for an SE2 (L61) position at Microsoft in Hyderabad. The process involved a phone screen and a virtual loop with three rounds covering coding, low-level design, and behavioral aspe...

Interview Experience

## Background - Backend engineer (Tier-2 company) - 4+ YOE - Based in Hyderabad ## Timeline Recruiter → Phone Screen → Virtual Loop (3 rounds) → Day 2: Docs requested → ~1 week later: Offer ## Rounds - **OA:** Q1 Medium (binary search / monotonic), Q2 Hard (DP + graph/state) - **Phone (60m):** Med...

Interview Questions (1)

Design a Message Queue

System Design
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Sharing my failure at Microsoft Hiring Event [BQ + Coding + Design]

Microsoft

Summary

I recently had a Microsoft hiring event and was likely screened out on coding. The questions weren't the typical tagged LeetCode ones. The rounds included behavioral questions, a rate limiter coding p...

Interview Experience

Just had my Microsoft hiring event recently. I went in a bit underprepared and probably got screened out on coding. One thing that surprised me: none of the questions were the usual tagged LeetCode ones, so it was a pretty rough experience for me. Sharing a quick summary for anyone preparing for M...

Interview Questions (5)

Team Dynamics and Collaboration

Behavioral
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Rate Limiter

Data Structures & Algorithms
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Ticket Booking System

System Design
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Delivering with Little Guidance

Behavioral
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Minimum Area Rectangle

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Microsoft SDE - 2 frontend experience What are my chances ?

MicrosoftSDE - 2 frontend

Summary

I had a two-round interview for a Microsoft SDE-2 frontend position. The first round was a DSA question involving a meeting room variation. The second round was a low-level design question about a mov...

Interview Experience

Given 2 rounds for Microsoft last saturday. Round 1 - DSA Interviewer was friendly and pasted directly a medium-hard level graph question in editor. At this point of time i was literally crying from inside, being a frontend developer this is the last thing which i expect. I am good at medium leve...

Interview Questions (4)

Meeting Room Variation

Data Structures & Algorithms
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LLD: Movie Recommendation System Autocomplete

System Design
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User Event Tracking

Behavioral
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Past Rendering Issue

Behavioral
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Microsoft SDE 2 | L61/62 | Interview Experience

MicrosoftSDE 2💼 4 YOE

Summary

I interviewed for an SDE 2 (L61/62) position at Microsoft. The process included an OA, DSA, LLD, and HLD round, all of which I cleared. However, the final Hiring Manager round was a very negative and ...

Interview Experience

Hey all! I have 4 years of experience as software developer (Fintech and Finance). I gave more than 50+ interviews (15+ companies) in last 4 months and would love to share my interview experiences one by one to give back to the community. I started preparing for a switch in Sept and soon Microsoft r...

Interview Questions (4)

Variation of Minimum Meeting Rooms Required

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Low-Level Design of a Music Playing App

System Design
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High-Level Design of a URL Shortener

System Design
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Handling Idempotency in a Checkout System

System Design
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Interview Experience - Microsoft SDE 2(L61) | Hyderabad

MicrosoftSoftware Engineer II (L61)📍 Hyderabad💼 3 YOE

Summary

I interviewed for a Software Engineer II (L61) position at Microsoft in Hyderabad. The process consisted of an online assessment followed by three technical rounds and a final AA round. The interviews...

Interview Experience

Interview Details : 🏢 Company: Microsoft 👨‍💻 Role: Software Engineer II (L61) 📍 Location: Hyderabad 🗓️ Timeline: October–November 2025 💻 Mode: Online 🧪 Process: Online Assessment → 3 Technical Rounds (~1 hour each) → AA Round (~30 mins) 👨‍💻 Experience: 3 years Online Assessment 2 Questio...

Interview Questions (8)

Min Stack

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Object-Oriented Design with Factory Pattern

System Design
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Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array (Extended)

EasyData Structures & Algorithms
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Valid Parentheses

EasyData Structures & Algorithms
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Generate Parentheses

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Design a Distributed LRU Cache

HardSystem Design
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Find the Duplicate Number

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Behavioral Questions

Behavioral
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Microsoft Interview for SDE2

MicrosoftSDE II💼 3.5 YOE

Summary

I had a multi-stage interview process for an SDE2 role at Microsoft, starting with an online assessment, followed by a screening round, and then a 3-round hiring drive. The rounds covered project disc...

Interview Experience

Round 1 - Hackerank OA - 2 DSA questions Round 2 - Screening Round - 30min project discussion + 1 DSA Leetcode Medium(Exclusive Time of Functions) Round 3/4/5 - Hiring drive(all three rounds were scheduled beforehand) Round 3 - LLD(LRU cache)+Concurrency Round 4 - 1 DSA(Reverse Nodes In K Group) Rou...

Interview Questions (3)

Exclusive Time of Functions

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Low-Level Design of LRU Cache

System Design
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Reverse Nodes in k-Group

HardData Structures & Algorithms
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Interview Experience: Microsoft | L61(Hyderabad)

MicrosoftSDE II📍 Hyderabad

Summary

I had a smooth interview process with Microsoft for an L61 role in Hyderabad. The process included an Online Assessment and three subsequent rounds focusing on DSA (graphs, matrices), Low-Level Design...

Interview Experience

Hi everyone! I recently interviewed with Microsoft and wanted to share my experience in case it helps others preparing.Overall, the process was very smooth and interviewer friendly. The focus was strongly on problem solving, fundamentals, and practical system thinking.Online Assessment (HackerRank)T...

Interview Questions (5)

Find Size of Connected Component for Query Nodes

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Spiral Matrix Traversal (LLD Style)

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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Extensible Matrix Traversal Design

System Design
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In-Application Search System Concepts

System Design
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Behavioral Questions

Behavioral
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Interview Experience: Microsoft | SDE 2

MicrosoftSDE 2

Summary

I participated in a Microsoft hiring drive for an SDE 2 role. The process included an online assessment, two technical coding rounds, a system design round, and a final hiring manager round, after whi...

Interview Experience

I recently attained the Microsoft hiring drive.Online Assessment (HackerRank) Two coding questions focused on data structures and algorithmic efficiency. Result: Received feedback after week. All subsequent rounds are in a single day.Received the invite for R1 and R2. If these are positive,...

Interview Questions (5)

LRU Cache Implementation

MediumData Structures & Algorithms
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C++ Fundamentals

Other
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Problem Involving Priority Queues

Data Structures & Algorithms
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Design an Alert Monitoring System

System Design
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Behavioral and Scenario-Based Questions

Behavioral
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MIcrosoft | SDE-2 | Interview

MicrosoftSDE-2💼 3.5 YOE

Summary

I had a four-round interview for an SDE-2 role at Microsoft. The rounds included LLD (Chat Application), DSA, HLD (Rate Limiter), and an AA round with more design (Extensible Rate Limiter) and a math-...

Interview Experience

Interview Experience: **YOE: 3.5** It was a hiring drive, contacted by the recruiter over mail after completing the OA. Two Rounds were scheduled on the day of Drive - **Round 1: LLD** Started with a brief intro, Interviewer asked a vague HLD/LLD question to Design a Chat application. I started...

Interview Questions (3)

Design a Chat Application

System Design
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Design a Rate Limiter

System Design
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Implement Extensible Rate Limiter

System Design
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Principal Engineer - Mobile - Phone Screen - Microsoft

MicrosoftPrincipal Engineer - Mobile

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Interview Questions (2)

Design Rate Limiter

System Design
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Design Browser History

System Design
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