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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I ended up with two back-to-back technical interviews that each ran about 45 minutes.

The whole vibe was friendly and encouraging; the interviewers genuinely wanted me to succeed and would help me when I got stuck. The questions landed in the easy to easy/medium range, and the format felt like a light mix of behavioral conversation plus live coding.

One round focused on a simple coding prompt: I had to write a function to multiply integers without using the multiplication operator. In the other, it was essentially another LeetCode-style problem that fit the same difficulty band. What stood out was how much the interviewer behavior mattered—when someone was clearly trying to

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