Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft (Belgrade) en jun 2025
Entrevista
I had four interviews:
- First interview (1.5h): With the Principal Group Engineering Manager. It included CV screening and questions about my previous experience and why I want to join their team.
- Second interview (1.5h): With the Principal Engineering Manager, who would be my immediate manager. It also included CV screening and questions about my previous experience and why I want to join their team.
- Third interview (1.5h): Technical interview and CV screening.
- Fourth interview (1.5h): Technical interview and CV screening.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Question 1:
Write a function to reverse bits in a number. Then write a function that:
1. Takes two numbers.
2. Reverses the order of bits in both numbers.
3. Swaps the memory locations of these two numbers.
Write tests to verify your code.
Question 2:
You are given a singly linked list. Delete n nodes starting from a given index k. Write tests to verify your code.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Microsoft en may 2026
Entrevista
1. Recruiter screen: recruiter was friendly but had their camera off. They asked me about my recent work experience, my strongest programming language, and salary expectations
2. Technical Screen: live HackerRank coding challenge with a team member of the team hiring for the role, over Microsoft Teams. The interviewer had their camera off but was easy to talk to. The coding challenge was a LeetCode-style challenge that required the backtracking algorithm. Interviewer spent extra time aftwards to take questions from me and share information about the team and employer.
3. 3x "Full Loop Interview Technical". The interviewers did not show up to these interviews. I emailed the recruiter who told me that interviewing for the role had been cancelled.
My overall impression of Microsoft based on their hiring practises is the company is dysfunctional, employees are disengaged, their hiring practises are disconnected from the actual job, and they don't care about candidate experience.
Moderate. Do leetcode tagged Microsoft questions. They generally ask from most recent Microsoft tagged questions. I applied without referral. Will have a technical screening with hiring manager. Then DSA and System design rounds.
Interview process:
Online assessment (hard level)
1-hour screening call
4 interviews in one day:
Medium-hard LeetCode (OOP-focused)
Medium-hard LeetCode DSA problem
Long system design interview (strong focus on relational database design)
Partner manager interview (AI-focused + behavioral)
The process was technically challenging and well-structured.
However, after the final interview, there was over one month of silence despite follow-up messages. Eventually, I received a generic rejection email stating:
"This decision does not reflect on your potential or the value of your experience."
I would have appreciated more timely communication and more specific feedback after such an extensive process.