Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Vancouver, BCPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview kicked off with questions about technical features I’d implemented before, and then it moved into what they were looking for in terms of day-to-day work—whether I was hands-on in an IC-style role.

After that, there was a DSA coding problem that was string-based with zeros and ones. The task was to find a single-pass approach to identify consecutive zeros followed by ones.

The format felt compact and focused: they were checking both how I talk about my actual work and whether I can land on an efficient approach for a non-trivial string problem. Even though the question was algorithmic, the bigger challenge was making sure my reasoning stayed tight while targeting the one-pass requirement.

I didn’t get an offer, and my reflection was that I understood the general problem-solving

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