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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Belgrade, Central SerbiaPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process for the role I applied to took a long time from start to finish, and it stretched into a multi-month timeline.

Applying itself was easy—just a short form and a CV—but after that I waited through selection that took around two months.

Once I got through, I did two DSA tasks from home on HackerRank, like medium-LeetCode style problems. The next step was a set of three interviews, each in a consistent format. Each one started with a conversation about my CV and interests, plus some personal questions, and then moved into a DSA problem. In my case, I saw one easy, one hard, and then an easy/medium problem.

What surprised me was how long the whole thing took, with plenty of waiting after completing every

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