Date of Interview : Dec 2025
YOE : 4 years

I had recently appeared for interviews at Microsoft and felt like sharing the interview experience.

Screening Round

1. Modified version of https://leetcode.com/problems/contains-duplicate-ii/description/ where I was asked to print the elements with the distance k.
2. https://leetcode.com/problems/edit-distance/description/
3. Past projects experience

Round 1 : DSA Round

https://leetcode.com/problems/number-of-islands/description/

Round 2 : LLD

Design a Rate Limiter

Follow ups :

1. What if different APIs have different number of APIs that can be called in different time periods?
2. What if we have to set a rate limiter on 2 APIs combined?

Round 3 : HLD

Design a Leaderboard for a gaming company which has 'n' number of games. The user must be able to see his rank, as well as the top 10, 50, 100 players on the leaderboard.

Round 4 : HM Round

1. Standard Behavioral Questions
2. https://leetcode.com/problems/single-threaded-cpu/description/

Verdict : Rejected