1. Online Application & Resume Screening

Submit your application via the Microsoft careers portal or through referrals/campus recruiting. Your resume is screened for strong CS fundamentals, projects, and relevant experience.

🔹 2. Online Assessment (OA)

Usually hosted on platforms like Codility, HackerRank, or Codesignal.

Format:

• 2–3 coding questions (LeetCode Easy–Medium, sometimes Hard).
• Topics: arrays, strings, hash maps, binary trees, DP, graphs, sorting, greedy.
• May include a few multiple-choice questions on CS fundamentals (OOP, complexity, DB basics).

Time: ~60–90 minutes.

🔹 3. Technical Interviews (1–2 Rounds)

Conducted via Teams/Zoom.

Coding: LeetCode-style problems (Medium–Hard). Emphasis on problem-solving, clarity, and coding efficiency.

System/Conceptual questions:

• Data structures (stacks, queues, hash maps, graphs, trees).
• Algorithms (sorting, searching, DP, BFS/DFS).
• OOP and design basics (classes, inheritance, interfaces).

Interviewers also evaluate communication and thought process. Talk through your approach.

Tell me about your most recent challenge.