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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went into Microsoft with a pretty intense onsite schedule: back-to-back interviews that were tightly packed, with multiple technical discussions in a short window.

In one stretch, I had three interviews in a row, and I could feel the pressure of moving from one technical prompt to the next without much recovery time.

Even though I didn’t land the technical parts the way I wanted and felt like I bombed at least one of the technical interviews, the behavioral rounds were a different story. I did well enough there that the overall day didn’t feel like a total loss, and it left me thinking my communication and collaboration were stronger than my coding performance under that specific format.

In the end, the scheduling density itself became part of the

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