I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Apr 2024
Interview
4 interview rounds of 1 hrs each
1st DSA round - 1 medium 2 hard problems
2nd LLD round - desing a build generation system
3rd HLD round - unique id geberator with constraints
4th Hiring Manager round - resume + behavioural + system desing HLD
Neutral experience
Difficult interview
Application
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2026
Interview
I recently completed a Microsoft hiring event consisting of four rounds: two coding interviews and two OOD (Object-Oriented Design) interviews.Interestingly, for an SDE2 loop, there was no dedicated system design round,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding rounds were solid — one medium-level problem and one hard-level problem, both focused on data structures and algorithms, edge cases, and clean implementation. The OOD rounds centered on designing real-world systems with clear class responsibilities, extensibility, and trade-offs.