online application I received inmail from a recruiter at microsoft through linkedin which has the job description and link to apply and i directly applied through that link. Initial Screening I receive mail from recruiter and asked about NP ,work experiance, invited for a meet Genral discussion on current work experiance and College education, my preffered programming language Experiance working on C++,multithreading the HR told that the process will involve 3 rounds ,2 technical and one managerial which will be based on DSA and problem solving Technical Round Duration 45 minutes, one dsa question medium leetcode meeting held on Microsoft teams formal introduction Length of Longest substring without repeating characters First i solved with bruteforce than optimize solution Challenges - execute given test cases and all should pass with correct output. Technical Round Duration : 1 hour Meeting held on Micrsoft Teams formal introduction Asked: 1 Dsa question , 1 Debugging , 1 problem from GIT topic Solve - Find repeating and missing number in array I give a solution with hashmap and then Optimized Approach with O(1) Space complexity. Debug - Find repeating elements from two arrays merge conflict question with given parameters by interviewer, how to solve when same line of code already created by user1 and merged and if 2nd person still working on problems and have different code on same line, then how to solve the merge conflict I have solved both question related to DSA, but unable to explain for GIT merge conflict properly

Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.