Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Positive

Redmond, WAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial coding round, I moved into an onsite with three additional rounds, so four coding-heavy conversations in total.

Each round started with a short introduction, then the interviewers jumped into a coding question.

What stood out was how often the problems were framed like class design rather than purely algorithm puzzles. I also had a design angle where they checked my understanding of microservices, which pushed me beyond just writing code and into thinking about how components would fit together. On top of that, there were OOP-focused questions where I had to explain how classes, functions, and variables work in practice.

The interviewers were positive and encouraging throughout, which helped me stay

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