Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

Copenhagen, Capital RegionPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview was tightly timed and felt like a practical coding evaluation.

They started with about fifteen minutes of behavioral questions, then moved into twenty-five minutes of technical questions.

During the technical segment, I was asked to implement functionality and they evaluated both correctness and how optimal my approach was. Whenever there was room to improve, they guided the conversation to iterate and refine the implementation. Toward the end, there were about ten minutes left for my questions.

I didn’t get an offer, but the process itself was clear about what mattered—working code plus incremental improvement rather than one-and-done answers. It felt

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