J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 5 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft en juill. 2010
Entretien
Certainly, the best experience in my professional life.
Every interview was friendly, clean, time moderated, and contained hints leading me to right answers.
Phone screen: few questions on general OS internals, like "describe the context switch" + one brain teaser from well-known book "How to move Fuji mountain" - must read, btw.
Face2face is even more friendly, in relaxing environment, with extremely friendly people.
Mostly typical questions like "reverse linked list". I would recommend to read "Introduction to algorithms" and "Hacker's Delight" before face2face.
Questions d'entretien [3]
Question 1
What is a Context Switch?
(question related to OS internals)
J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Entretien
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Bengaluru) en juin 2026
Entretien
I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.