Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got an invite to do the Online Assessment for the Software Engineer 2 role, and the total time listed was 90 minutes.

It felt like a fairly contained process—just the OA—and it mainly tested two heavy DSA topics: one tree-based question and one bit-manipulation question.

I worked through both, but I wasn’t able to fully solve them and didn’t get through all the test cases. After that, I heard nothing further. The silence really stood out to me: no follow-up, no updates, and it ended with the feeling of being quietly dropped rather than given closure.

Looking back, the main thing that affected me was how much the OA determined the whole process. When I couldn’t land complete solutions on those two problems,

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