Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

Each round included medium-to-hard story-style questions, and the overall tone felt less like a strict coding marathon and more like an interactive discussion about approach.

Not every interviewer asked me to run the code all the way through—some focused primarily on the method and how I would tackle the problem, while the last round still stayed centered on the way I thought. I didn’t receive an offer, but the process felt focused on reasoning rather than just producing working code under pressure. My reflection was that being able to explain my approach clearly mattered at least as much as