Microsoft | Software Engineer | Job Fitment
Timeline: 2026(Jan - Mar) • Fulltime • JobHopper • 
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Describe your experience during the interview process at Microsoft?
The interview was structured into different rounds. I went through preliminary screening followed by multiple rounds of interviews. The focus was primarily on technical questions and understanding my prior experience.
Questions I faced included systems design, coding problems, and some behavioral questions to understand my approach to team dynamics. Overall, I found the experience to be rigorous but fair, allowing me to showcase my strengths adequately.
Interview Questions
Design a URL shortening service
How would you design a service like bit.ly that shortens URLs?
Difficulty: Medium | Reference: LC-1296 | Tags: Design, System Design
LRU Cache
Implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache mechanism to store values. What data structures would you use?
Difficulty: Medium | Reference: LC-146 | Tags: Cache, Data Structure
Binary Tree Level Order Traversal
Given a binary tree, return its level order traversal as an array of arrays. Each array represents a level.
Difficulty: Medium | Reference: LC-102 | Tags: Tree, BFS