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      Software Engineer I/II Interview

      10 Feb 2022
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Redmond, WA

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      Software Engineer II Interview

      14 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2026

      Interview

      1. Recruiter screen: recruiter was friendly but had their camera off. They asked me about my recent work experience, my strongest programming language, and salary expectations 2. Technical Screen: live HackerRank coding challenge with a team member of the team hiring for the role, over Microsoft Teams. The interviewer had their camera off but was easy to talk to. The coding challenge was a LeetCode-style challenge that required the backtracking algorithm. Interviewer spent extra time aftwards to take questions from me and share information about the team and employer. 3. 3x "Full Loop Interview Technical". The interviewers did not show up to these interviews. I emailed the recruiter who told me that interviewing for the role had been cancelled. My overall impression of Microsoft based on their hiring practises is the company is dysfunctional, employees are disengaged, their hiring practises are disconnected from the actual job, and they don't care about candidate experience.
      1
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2022

      Interview

      1) Contacted by recruiter on LinkedIn. 2) Called by recruiter to discuss opportunities. Completed application after phone call and emailed recruiter to push it to the next step. 3) Completed Codility assessment to qualify for interview event. Three questions, not bad. A couple string questions and exploiting a bug in a given algorithm. 4) Contacted to schedule virtual interview event. 5) Event consisted of four interviews on MS Teams, 45 minutes each. Each interviewer asked behavioral questions and a coding question using Codility. The interview was OK overall. The process was pretty easy to follow and there was lots of communication leading up to it. Took 3 business days following the interview to get my result. My experiences with each interviewer are down below. The first interviewer was very pleasant. Easy question, relaxed discussions on my experience and friendly overall. The second interviewer was about 5 minutes late and was extremely difficult to understand. Spoke very fast and had a thick accent. Seemed a little high-strung There was a bit of a language barrier as he asked me the same behavioral question like three times, all phrased a little differently. The third interviewer was pretty relaxed, similar to the first. Was helpful with answering any questions I had. The fourth interviewer asked the most when it came to behavioral questions. He was very interested in my responses and asked lots of follow-up questions. Was also very nice. Unfortunately, this left only about 20 minutes to solve the tree question he asked. On top of solving it, I was also asked to implement the tree data structure (as shown in the prompt) and add a bunch of test cases to test my algorithm. I felt pretty rushed having to bang this out in 20 minutes, but it's doable if you have practiced a lot with trees and searching algorithms.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Question 1: Check if a string, composed of various brackets/braces/parentheses, is valid.
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      Question 2: Given a large rectangle and a set of smaller rectangles, find if there exists a subset of the small rectangles that can perfectly fill the large rectangle.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Question 3: Given a string of parentheses, balance the string in as few moves as possible. Return the set of moves used to balance the string.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Question 4: Given a tree, where each node holds an integer value, find if there exists a path from the root node to a leaf node that equals a given sum.
      Answer question
      45

      Software Engineer II Interview

      17 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      Moderate. Do leetcode tagged Microsoft questions. They generally ask from most recent Microsoft tagged questions. I applied without referral. Will have a technical screening with hiring manager. Then DSA and System design rounds.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Leetcode and Resume based discussion.
      Answer question

      Software Engineer II Interview

      17 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft

      Interview

      Interview process: Online assessment (hard level) 1-hour screening call 4 interviews in one day: Medium-hard LeetCode (OOP-focused) Medium-hard LeetCode DSA problem Long system design interview (strong focus on relational database design) Partner manager interview (AI-focused + behavioral) The process was technically challenging and well-structured. However, after the final interview, there was over one month of silence despite follow-up messages. Eventually, I received a generic rejection email stating: "This decision does not reflect on your potential or the value of your experience." I would have appreciated more timely communication and more specific feedback after such an extensive process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      leetcode oop system design medium-hard level
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