23 Interview Experiences
Status: Offered Role: Software Engineer II Location: Bengaluru Experience: 4+ yearsIt started with a recruiter reach-out, followed by a Codility OA. The OA had two medium-difficulty problems focusing on Arrays and Strings. Once cleared, I had 4 virtu
I have completed all 4 rounds of interview at Microsoft last week for a SDE-2 role. On the same day of AA interview, received a call from the HR that feedback is positive and they will rollout an offer and also submitted the requested docs that night
Company : Microsoft Role : Data Science Intern Location : Banglore On-CampusRound 1 : Online Assesment Question 1 : Don't exactly remember , but Arrays Questions easy-medium level related to finding how much each element deviated from meanQuestion 2
Status: SDE2 at Mid-sized Product Co. Experience: 3.5 Years Position: SDE2 (L61/L62) Location: India (Remote/Hybrid) Date: March 2026 Round 1: DSA & Problem Solving Question 1: LeetCode 124 (Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum). Question 2: (Similar to Tra
Just finished a Microsoft OA and wanted to share the thinking patterns that helped.Problem 1 — Think: "minimum window with a condition"If you see a problem asking for the shortest subarray satisfying some constraint on its elements, your first though
Hey everyone, I had a Microsoft SWE 2 interview scheduled, but the recruiter canceled it due to “unforeseen business conflicts.” They didn’t mention any new dates yet. Has anyone else experienced this? Any insight into what’s going on internally or w
Hi Community,I recently completed all my interview rounds at Microsoft and wanted to know how long it usually takes for the recruiter to get back with the results.Thanks in advance!
Hi everyone for L-61 position, R3 and R4 are the loop rounds. I mean compalsary rounds ? Or R4 depends on R3 performance ?
Hello fellow interviewers, For the position SDE-2 Can you please share how many days before the interview you receive the interview invites for 2026? Actually, I cleared OA, and the recruiter told me to wait until April to get scheduled for loops, so
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that I’ve officially closed my interview loop with Microsoft and accepted an offer for L61 role with the Azure SQL team.The entire process was a bit of a whirlwind and honestly a small rollercoaster when it came to
Hi everyone,I applied for the Microsoft SDE Intern role (through referral) in November 2025, but my application status on the Microsoft Careers portal still shows "Submitted" even after several months.I haven't received any update, interview invite,
I recently completed 3 rounds of interviews with Microsoft for an SDE role. My R3 was finished last Tuesday, and since then I have not received any update from the HR.I tried messaging and calling the recruiter but haven't received any response yet.
Hi everyone,I currently hold SDE 2 offers from both Microsoft and Amazon, with the joining date for both roles on March 23rd. I'm trying to decide between the two and had a couple of questions.If I accept an offer and later decide to decline it, woul
I had my Microsoft interview today (Rounds 1 and Round 2). They had mentioned that this is an hiring event. The interviews went decent overall, and I am wondering what to expect next.So I want to know from you guys - Has anyone else interviewed today
Did any one give interviews for 200026019 on Feb 26th and recieved rejection/selection mail? I had given 2 back to back tech interviews but I've not heard back from them yet. It still shows as "Screen" in the action center.
Data science fundamentals round (1 out of 4 tech rounds) Data Quality & Outliers Question: In a given dataset, some feature values are extremely large. How do you handle them? Do you remove, retain, or transform them? Follow-up: What are other critic
Interview Experience – Senior Backend / Ads / Distributed Systems (5 Rounds)🔹 Round 1 – Coding + Ads FundamentalsFocus Areas: Project deep dive 3–4 behavioral questions Complete Ads ecosystem explanation Advertiser → DSP → Ad Exchange → SSP → Publis
I recent completed SDE2 loop and wanted to share my experience.Current Experience - 4.5 yearThree rounds happened on Friday as part of the hiring event drive, and the AA happened the following week after I received positive feedback from all three ro
I recent completed SDE2 loop and wanted to share my experience, takeways & tips from the interview process. System Design with Senior Engineer - Design a rate Limitter & general questions regarding server debugging like logs, monitoring etc To be ho
Round 1: Data Structures & Algorithms (45–60 mins)The interview began with a standard DSA evaluation focused on problem-solving under strict constraints.Question 1 (Medium): An optimization problem requiring a greedy approach. It initially seemed str
I had given 2 rounds of interview on the same day last week. What are the chances of getting call for next rounds? In the application center it still shows "Screen".
Can anyone tell me what to expect in microsoft interview expeience oncampus for full time role. what topic i should prepare apart from data structure and algorithm
A breakdown of my recent 3-round interview process at Mircosoft for SDE II. The focus was heavily on Low-Level Design (LLD) and the reasoning behind architectural choices.YOE : Almost 5 years.Round 1: DSA (60 min) - Feb 27, 2026Problem: Meeting Room