I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Chennai) in Feb 2026
Interview
First phase is a phone screening. Selected candidates will have additional interviews. Internship is open to third-year, sixth-semester engineering students. It is an on-campus opportunity at our organization this year.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had Microsoft security research intern phone screening today-
>15min phone screening round
>Introduction
>What do you know about security, and your work related to that?
>Production grade workflow of secure user authentication.
>What are public and private keys, ecryption and hashing. Real world example where public and private key are used and how are they handled.
> Tell me about a real world vulnerability that recently occured.
>Why do you want this role.
>Generic Behavioural questions.