Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

I had four rounds of coding interviews and also went through a system design round, but there wasn’t a separate behavioral interview included in my set. The way I felt throughout was that if I understood the DSA fundamentals, the interviews didn’t feel like an insurmountable hurdle.

After a take-home stage, the next steps were multiple interviews with professional people who were genuinely easy to talk with. The coding rounds went well, and the interviewers were thoughtful about how the conversation flowed, not just the final answer.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer in my cycle. Even so, I