Interview Experience Analysis for Microsoft

YOE: 2 YOE Applied directly on the portal and recruiter reached out with the Online Assessment. Step 1: Online Assessment (OA) Donn't remember the questions exactly but were on difference array and some hard question on heaps. Solved both the questions and got the interview invite. Round 1: DSA ro...

YOE: 2 YOE Applied directly on the portal and recruiter reached out with the Online Assessment. Step 1: Online Assessment (OA) Donn't remember the questions exactly but were on difference array and some hard question on heaps. Solved both the questions and got the interview invite. Round 1: DSA ro...

Hi, I had applied for the SDE-2 role at Microsoft using their career portal via referral and recruiter reached out to after couple of days and scheduled my interviews (all on same day). ### Round - 1: DSA ``` Choose Data Structure and define 2 methods * save(int num) ---> store the data 2,5,8...

7th November 2025 Drive YOE - 4.5 Total 4 rounds, 3 on one day and 4th 2 days later R1 The interviewer asked me to design a Photocache, which is essentially an LRU cache where the key is an encoded representation of a photo (string → SHA-256) and the value is the original photo name. It was a straig...

Applied via careers Portal. After 10 days from Applying received a hackerrank test link for 90 Min. 2 Questions and they were Leetcode Medium types. After 3-4 weeks received a call to participate in drive for further steps. All Rounds on the same day Initially Scheduled 2 Rounds and if we perfo...

Hi, I had applied for the SDE-2 role at Microsoft using their career portal and recruiter reached out to me and scheduled my interviews (all on same day) Round 1 1. Fairly similar to - https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-provinces/description/ 2. I implemented it using DFS, interviewer asked m...

Round 1: - Disussion on past project and web optimisations techniques. Questions around useEffect how it works and how it will output on a given code snippet. How react uses batching for updates. - Output question on promises, something like this console.log(1); setTimeout(() => {  console.log(...

Hi, Attended Microsoft Hiring drive on 31st October.Round 1:2 DSA Questions:https://leetcode.com/problems/max-consecutive-ones-iii/description/https://leetcode.com/problems/rotting-oranges/Exact same question was asked.Round 2:https://leetcode.com/problems/word-ladder/description/I was asked to prin...

Location: Bengaluru Timeline: October–November 2025 Platform: HackerRank + Microsoft Teams YOE: 3 Years (Fintech) I applied through the Microsoft Careers portal for multiple job IDs, both with and without referrals. Surprisingly, I got a OA for this particular role even without a referral, 🧩 Round...

I prepared by thoroughly reviewing DSA fundamentals, particularly Linked Lists, Trees, and Graphs. For system design, I focused on both HLD and LLD, using resources such as Hellointerview, Alex Xu vol 1 and vol 2. I also aimed to stay calm and maintain good communication, even when facing unexpected...