Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Cairo, Cairo GovernoratePosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Microsoft interview process turned into a frustrating wait after a fairly structured loop.

I applied online and then went into a four-round virtual interview loop. Round one mixed behavioral questions about my current role with a fundamentals discussion on HTTP, and there was coding where I had to move zeros to the end—at one point I needed hints to finish.

Round two combined behavioral with system design where I was asked to design a vending machine system. Round three returned to behavioral, and I also had a coding task involving particle collision. The final round was a coding problem that wasn’t on LeetCode, which caught me off guard because it felt custom and a bit more

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