I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Dec 2025
Interview
Pre scheduled 4 interviews. One of them evaluates use of copilot in classic computer science tasks. Each stage starts with behavioral analysis and brief meeting part. One of them is purely human resource interview, all other ones are technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you behave if a junior member approached requesting help while you are over the head with work and have a tight deadline to meet?
Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.
