Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

We talked through my projects, and then I hit a medium DSA problem as part of the first loop rounds.

The later rounds stayed tightly connected to that same structure: one round paired DSA at a harder level with behavioral questions, and two rounds involved low-level design plus behavioral prompts. Across the day, the questions didn’t feel random—they felt like they were testing both my coding fundamentals and my ability to talk through how I’d design things in a real engineering context.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer. Even with the clear structure, the difficulty was high enough that I