Rejected

SDE 2 at Microsoft

How it went

Be ready for both tech and real-life questions. Coding matters, but so does teamwork, communication, and handling pressure.

What they would tell you

Be ready for both tech and real-life questions. Coding matters, but so does teamwork, communication, and handling pressure.

How to prepare

For LLD rounds, be ready to discuss your current project architecture and design patterns you’ve used
For DSA rounds, practice DP, sliding window, and combined DP + Binary Search problems
For hiring manager / behavioral rounds, prepare real examples for conflict resolution, communication under pressure

Their background

I am working as backend developer, with experience of 4 years 8 months

Round by round

1
Technical Round 160 min
These round was started with intro, after this he asked some pattern of microservices, and LLD questions, my past projects, DBMS, OOP's related and at last one DSA problem.
- Extra Characters in a String
2
Technical Round 260 min
And during this round a coding question was asked ,which i solved using, sliding window & dynamic programming
3
Hiring Manager30 min
This round was less about code and more about how I work, think, and solve real-world problems.
- Have you helped a teammate improve their skills?
- Managing a production outage
- Changing priorities on a project

What came up

MediumRemote4 5 years

A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.

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