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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Redmond, WAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was built around multiple LeetCode-style questions, and I had four of them.

Instead of feeling like it was purely a test of whether I could solve everything instantly, the interviewers were very generous with time and offered several hints as I went.

The topics leaned into fundamentals like strings and graphs, and the way the hints were delivered made it feel less about “gotchas” and more about whether I could navigate toward the right reasoning. I kept working through the questions one by one, and the experience didn’t feel hostile or adversarial at any point.

I ended up not receiving an offer, but I left feeling like I understood where I was falling short rather

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