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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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I interviewed for an SDE2/senior track at Microsoft and it played out as a four-round sequence.

The problems were a mix of classic algorithm questions and more design-focused prompts, with each round feeling centered on how I reasoned rather than just whether I could memorize templates.

In the first round, I handled a valid binary tree problem and a maximal network rank challenge. The next round shifted into OOP territory: I designed a stack that supports push and pop like normal, but also needs a getmin() operation. All three operations were expected to run in constant time, so the discussion was really about how to structure the data to maintain the minimum efficiently. The third

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