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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Bucharest, BucurestiPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process included phone-screen style interviews where they leaned heavily on both my resume and concrete technical basics.

In one screen, the interviewer asked me to explain foundational concepts—things like what a linked list and a binary search tree are, and how inorder traversal works—along with OOP and DSA-related questions. The same screen also covered behavior and pulled at my CV and personal projects.

In another screen, the focus was more on easy data structures and scenario-based questions about which data structure would fit best for a given situation. I also got a more specific coding prompt about designing a hashing approach for partitioning, where the discussion covered different ways to solve it and

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