Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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

I went through a fairly classic multi-round IC loop.

After the initial phone screen, I had three technical rounds that felt like they were designed to cover the full range: system design in depth and then some coding to keep me honest. I remember the system design parts being split between higher-level and lower-level thinking, with both rounds pushing me on the design details.

In one design-focused round, I had to build out a booking system for movie tickets. Then the lower-level angle brought it down to implementing the pieces—designing and working through classes, interfaces, and methods at a more granular level. The third round was coding,

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