I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Aug 2025
Interview
Asked about past experience and resume. Questioned on my experience on large-scale distributed system and thought it's not "large" enough. Other questions are normal BQ.
Came to the coding part at half-way for a 45-min tech screen. I have a bad feeling when he said coding as the remaining time is not long. The coding question is, given a valid BST, a target value and a target distance k, find all nodes having a distance k with the node having the target value in the BST, both parent and child nodes count, disregard for output order. I spent the rest of time but didn't work this out.
After looking up afterwards this seems to be a mid-to-hard lc problem. I don't think 20 min would be enough to come up with the correct solution and code for anyone who's not lc pro..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked my experience on large-scale distributed system as they are from Azure.
The interview was a long process. There was first the recruiter screen, which was followed by a 4-loop interview structure that covered technical, behavioral, and system design. The interviewers were very kind and accommodating.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
After my application to ClipChamp - Microsoft, a recruiter reached out and scheduled my first interview. It was about basic interview questions and background analysis. After that I had my technical interview. The recruiter specifically said that I would be facing medium hacker rank questions. So I prepared accordingly. However, what I actually got was to analyse an application and re work it according to new requirements. I felt like I was set up for failure on purpose. Didn’t even hear back after that interview.
Took a bit longer than I thought, spanning about three weeks from start to finish. After a quick recruiter screen, I had a technical round where I was asked about validating a binary search tree. The wild part is, I had literally seen this exact problem on prachub.com while prepping. It helped me feel more confident discussing my approach and edge cases. There was also a behavioral interview where I shared my experiences, and eventually, I received an offer. I chose to decline it, though, as it wasn't the right fit for me at the time.
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