Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

I had two interviews: the first was focused on system design, and the second was more like a deep review of my entire career. That second round went into the biggest challenges I’d faced, plus lots of technical details that connected back to my past work.

In a separate, similarly compressed sequence, I did two interviews where the difficulty split sharply—one really difficult session and one easy one. The difficult question involved working with an infinitely long array to compute mean, median, and mode, and then the easier follow-up was a HashMap-based problem.

Across these experiences,