I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Nov 2019
Interview
1. an online test which included solving 3 problems in 65 minutes on codilliy platform.
2. 30 minutes skype interview with the followinh qeustions:
1. Describe good code? Perfect code?
2. Why do you want to work at microsoft
3. Tell us about a difficult project at school
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given a positive number, add the digit 5 to it, in order to get the max possible number (codillity)
I got a HackerRank home assignment with 2 leetcode questions, one was easy the other was medium-hard. It was a sliding windows, and a buy n products with the minimum coins at start. There were 2 arrays, one of the WC cost of the products and one with the expected cost.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Feb 2026
Interview
3 interviews. Only 1 leetcodes (easy-medium) in the second interview. Lots of personal questions, leadership and design patterns.
They were really nice, but at the end they ended up with someone that had more experience then me.
It’s one day with two interviews, and if you move on, you’ll have another two. One focuses on designing a tic-tac-toe (X/O) game, and the other is a LeetCode-style coding question.
