I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Israel, TX) in Mar 2024
Interview
Interviews for graduates with a year+ of experience for their security group. A quality test afterwards -
2 initial technical interviews, each interview with 2 questions
and a more personal last interview with technical questions about my last job.
You get to the third interview only if you pass the first two.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First two interviews:
"Find All Anagrams in a String" on LeetCode
Creating a queue from stacks
Creating an iterator over a binary tree that traverses in a BFS manner
"Interleaving String" question on LeetCode
Last interview: More questions about my personality and technical questions based on what I did at work, description of a project, description of dealing with situations in a team, etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bangalore Rural) in June 2026
Interview
The interview was hard, even as a fresher the dsa they asked was hard category after I checked on leetcode. Though I couldn't solve it. Some of the other people who interviewed were asked easy - medium dsa
