I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2025
Interview
techinical interview. Leetcode style question on DSA. The question had to do with checking the number of palindromic substrings in a word. The intreviewer was polite and professional. I had 30 minutes.
Average interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2026
Interview
Fairly straightforward medium leetcode questions followed by a system design interview. There was also a behavioral interview where they asked about previous experience, but it didn't seem like that part was emphasized a lot since it was pretty unstructured.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me more about your previous work experience at X.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2023
Interview
Interviews were smooth, didn't get an offer. Probably wasn't prepared enough. Technical portion was hard. I will reapply again after some more preparation. Everyone was very friendly, seems like a great culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 2D binary matrix filled with 0’s and 1’s, find the largest rectangle containing all ones and return its area.