Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Dublin, DublinPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter coordinator call where we went over logistics and what the role would expect day to day.

A little later, I completed an initial technical coding assessment to evaluate problem-solving and code quality. After that, the interview loop moved quickly into live sessions.

I ended up doing four final interviews the next week—hands-on coding plus broader technical discussion, and the format felt collaborative rather than adversarial. One round was a coding interview focused on data structures and algorithms, and another was a deeper technical conversation where I had to reason through design and debugging and explain concepts clearly. There was also a system design interview that pushed

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