I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade) in Jan 2026
Interview
At first, I received an online algorithm task via hacker rank, one medium, one hard. Afterwards i had a quick chat with a recruiter.
After passing these, i was scheduled 4 back top back interviews lasting for 45 minutes with 15 minutes pause. On all of these, you start by talking about your previous experience and afterwards there are practical/techical questions.
The first one had OOP design, second was behavioral interview, third algorithm on HackerRank, the fourth was a system design.
The technical questions were not that hard at all, i failed because i expected them to be much harder and my brain found complexity when there was none
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would I design a scheduler service in distributed environment.
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.