Microsoft·Software Engineer

Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

SpainPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process I experienced was long and technically demanding, but it was also well organized.

It began with an online assessment at a hard level, then moved to a screening call. After that, I did four interviews in a single day.

Those rounds included medium-to-hard LeetCode questions with an object-oriented focus, a medium-to-hard DSA problem, a system design interview where the main emphasis was relational database design, and then a partner-manager interview that combined AI-focused discussion with behavioral questions. Everything felt structured while I was going through it, but what really stuck with me was the aftermath: after my final interview, I waited over a month with

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