Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

It was 90 minutes split into two parts: Part 1 was a medium-style logic challenge that I passed fully, and Part 2 was a medium-to-hard one where I still scored about 70%. A little later I moved into a virtual onsite where each round ran about an hour.

My onsite had four rounds. Round 1 mixed behavioral (30 minutes) with problem solving (30 minutes). The problem felt easy, and I finished well before time, so the conversation drifted into how I’d validate and productionize the code rather than just the final answer. Round 2 was behavioral plus a longer coding segment, and the coding task was