Status: Final Year Student, B. Tech in Information Technology
Position: Associate Consultant at Microsoft
Location: Hyderabad, India
Date: September 8, 2021

This was an on-campus opportunity. There was no online coding test, they directly selected candidates for interviews based on the resume.

Round 1: Technical Interview (50 min)

• Tell me about yourself.
• OSI vs TCP/IP protocol stack.
• Protocols used at Network layer.
• Coding question - Print the given string in cyclic order starting from every index.
• What is Encapsulation and difference between Abstraction and Encapsulation.
• Struct vs Abstract Class
• Abstract class vs Interfaces
• Types of Inheritance
• Merging and Rebasing in git
• Cherry pick in git
• What is static keyword and why it is used?
• Do you know about ER Diagrams?
• What are different types of joins?
• My Strengths and Weaknesses.
• Why Microsoft?
• What is my favourite anime and my favourite character.
• Puzzle related to matchsticks.

Round 2: HM Interview (50 min)

• Started with a brief discussion about me, my interests and why I wanted to join Microsoft.
• Tell me about any interesting problem that you solved during any programming contest. We had a discussion on various ways to solve the problem.
• How will you design Uber? What data structure or algorithm will you use?
• What are different searching algorithms and which searching algorithm is Google using?
• Discussion on one of my projects. Asked why I used a particular tech stack.

Round 3: Final AA Interview (30 min)

• Tell me about your engineering journey.
• Why did you take IT and not any other branch?
• Which subject you disliked the most?
• Tell me about a subject where you faced a lot of difficulties and how did you overcome them?
• Types of programming languages, Low level vs High level programming languages.
• Advantages of High level programming languages.
• What is object oriented programming? Why do we need Polymorphism?
• What is AI/ML and its applications. What is difference between normal programming and machine learning?
• What is Cloud? Do you know about Azure?
• Given a very complex task where there are no references or resources available, how would you approach the problem?

Result: Rejected.