I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2011
Interview
Microsoft came to our career fair at college and I gave them my resume. I heard back from them about a week later and then they send you a form to fill out for an on campus interview. Their interviews are very short. They said this at the session before the interview but that really can't be stressed enough, you get 15 minutes to make a good impression on them. They open up the interview just asking some basic questions about your background and then what projects you have worked on and then they give you some technical questions. I was given two of them. I received notice that I was declined for further interviews about a week later.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.
