I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Oct 2021
Interview
The process is too much time consuming. I have given many interviews of big as well as small companies, but in Microsoft interview process specially hiring for Teams. It felt disconnected since starting, every interviewer feels like they know everything and always let you feel least interested from the starting. In last round interviewer was so much rude and that he didn’t even let me explain the answer and started explaining the things in other ways. I thought interview process was to know the interviewee rather than put your thoughts on the candidate. Never the less the interview process was too much unprofessional, you couldn’t even pass on your thoughts or knowledge for the question but have to answer or think just like interview wants. Interviewer even couldn’t put the question in sensible way, when I started answering he mentioned no that’s not what I asked and instantly started explaining to me and when I asked back that you were asking me this, how could I put it that way! He mentioned, yes I know that cannot be put in that way.
Although early rounds of programming challenge were interesting which I cleared but as other rounds comes they have limited knowledge on Bigdata and wanted you to think just like they do.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Print first non repeating character in the continues data stream
Coding test and 3 round of interview , Contacted via 3rd party.interview went well.last management round panel said you are good fit.Then they ghosted and didn't give offer.waste of time.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2025
Interview
The process was tough but fair. There were two medium/hard sql questions, one easy leetcode style question, and one system design problem. Talked to 3 people in total for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We have a table of daily sales data. Write a query to calculate the 7-day rolling average revenue for each product, but exclude weekends from the calculation and handle gaps in the data.
I interviewed at Microsoft (Birmingham, Inglaterra)
Interview
Good process highly technical but skilled staff will gently guide you towards the correct thinking to arrive at the conclusion you think is most applicable. All digital, no in-person for early stages (though this might be different later).