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Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

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

I went through a 1-day loop that had three rounds, with each one taking about 45 minutes and a short break between.

The format was straightforward: I had to get through the first two interviews to reach the third, which the process treated like the deciding stage.

Round one included system design, and I felt solid on the design part, but the conversation also became a little frustrating because the interviewer seemed to expect me to guess what approach they had in mind. I kept asking follow-up questions, and they were moving in a way that made it feel like they’d already decided what they wanted from me.

Round two was a hard DSA problem and I was able to solve it within the time. Round three covered both

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