Microsoft·Data Scientist

Microsoft Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My schedule was unusual in that I skipped the first round entirely and jumped straight into three back-to-back interviews.

There was one interview with a PM and two interviews with data scientists, and the overall emphasis was on going deep into a project from my resume and defending the decisions I made along the way.

The questioning wasn’t treated like a casual walk-through. They wanted a detailed explanation of the choices behind my workflow—how I approached it, what I changed, and why I made each decision in completing the project. The difficulty was labeled average, and for me that matched the way the interviews felt: demanding in depth and clarity, but not hostile or impossible.

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