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4 rounds same day. 2 rounds leetcode style, you can expect medium problems, a tip is to check the most recent questions asked at Microsoft on leetcode. 1 Round is OOD, and 1 round easy system design problem. Each round has 10 minutes on average for behavioral questions.
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Question 1
Design url shortner for the system design, design chess for the OOD, XO for the leetcode, and the fourth problem I don't remember.
First I got an OA from them
One I cleared it they took phone screen.
Then I was schedule for virtual onsite
where I was asked 3 LC round 1 low level System Design
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nueva Delhi) in Jul 2025
Interview
interview was chill, was asked standard dsa questions. interviewer was nice and helping. got rejection mail though. coding round lasted for about 1.5 hours, did 2 normal dsa questions and 1 hard graph question.