Microsoft system design interview
Round 5 of 5 · 26 questions reported
- Length
- 60 min
- Format
- Design discussion
- Heads-up
- Sometimes object-oriented design instead; two rounds at senior level.
Questions Microsoft asks in this round 26
- Design a rate limiterApr 2026 · sometimes
- Design TinyURLJun 2026 · rarely
- Design a ticket booking systemJan 2026 · rarely
- Design a distributed web crawlerMay 2026 · once
- Design typeahead suggestionsApr 2026 · once
- Design a distributed job schedulerJan 2026 · once
- Design a distributed key-value store
- Design a hotel booking system
- Design a Kafka-like distributed message queue
- Design a metrics monitoring system
- Design a notification system
- Design a payment system
- Design a quota service
- Design a top-K popular items system
- Design a VM bandwidth rate limiter
- Design Amazon Locker
- Design an AI chatbot app
- Design an online chess game
- Design an online game leaderboard
- Design an S3-like object storage system
- Design Dropbox
- Design Facebook Messenger
- Design Google Docs
- Design Google News
- Design Instagram
- Design Spotify
About the Microsoft system design round
What does Microsoft ask in the system design round?
The most asked: Design a rate limiter, Design TinyURL and Design a ticket booking system. 26 questions reported in all.
How long is the Microsoft system design round?
About 60 minutes.
What is the Microsoft system design round like?
Design discussion.