Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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

I started with a recruiter screen, then moved into a technical screen with an engineering manager.

After that, I went into a virtual loop with multiple rounds. The overall experience was pretty straightforward, but the technical screen had a twist: it wasn’t a classic LeetCode-style prompt.

Instead, I was asked to design an API, which pushed it into a more low-level design space. It was a different kind of thinking than I expected when I first scheduled the interview, but it still felt fair.

In the end, I didn’t receive an offer. The reflection I had afterward was that the process was organized enough to follow, yet the technical screen’s format surprised me in a way that shifted how I

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