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Rejected

SDE 2 at Microsoft

Difficulty
Process took
2-3 Weeks
Rounds
3
Format
Remote
Applied via
Company Website

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. 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.

  2. 2

    Technical Round 260 min

    And during this round a coding question was asked ,which i solved using, sliding window & dynamic programming

  3. 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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