I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Apr 2018
Interview
I got the interview via a referral from a friend.
I had 2 phone interviews, and 2 on-site interviews on separate days.
The first phone interview was with HR.
Then I had another technical phone interview, where we mostly talked about my resume and I was asked some basic computer science knowledge + my projects.
Then I had an onsite technical interview that was about 1.5 hours long, started with some leetcode style questions for warmup, followed by a big question where I was asked to design a kind of dictionary/spell checking system. After the questions we just talked about the possible teams I might join and played some Xbox to see some of the features that were created by the interviewer's team.
after about 1-2 weeks I was invited to another interview.
In this interview, I was stressed and messed up, but this was a longer interview about 2.5 hours, where most of the time was dedicated to designing some caching solutions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
binary search tree, reverese a BST and some more simple leetcode style questions.
a dictionary/spell-checking system design.
a cache system design that becomes more complex, during the interview. starting with a basic LRU like scheme up to TTL and frequency approximations.
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.