Microsoft·Data Scientist

Microsoft Data Scientist interview experience

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Posted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter screen, I ended up doing a full day of interviews for the Data Scientist role.

It was structured as three back-to-back rounds, and the technical focus was pretty clear from the start.

Two of the rounds were LeetCode-style problem solving, and the third round centered on data manipulation. The questions felt like medium difficulty overall—challenging enough to think through carefully, but not completely out of reach. Throughout the day, the team came across as genuinely nice, which helped keep things from feeling overly adversarial.

I felt like I could follow the reasoning they were looking for, especially because the problems were in the “medium” lane rather than a

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