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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied, the process started with an online assessment where I had to work through coding and problem-solving prompts that leaned heavily on DSA.

A short while later I moved into technical interviews that were mainly about data structures and algorithms, with an emphasis on how I approached the problem and how clearly I talked through my thinking while coding.

In my technical round(s), I ran into a stack-based challenge tied to finding the longest valid sequence, and then I got a dynamic-programming question that felt more difficult. Between those, I also had conceptual discussion questions about linear search versus binary search and their time complexities. The interview felt interactive throughout, less like I was being tested on

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