Microsoft Senior Software Developer Engineer interview questions
based on 310 ratings - Updated Jun 20, 2026
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tallinn) in May 2022
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. Then the recruiter set me up with a virtual interview. The interview was conducted in 4 parts. Behavioral, coding, system design and code architecture. The first three interview I did was ok. The interviewers were friendly. However the final interview which was the coding interview was horrible. For some reason the interviewer was irritated by me since I couldn’t understand the question. The question wasn’t clear enough. Anyway I tried understand she was rude. I was actually thinking maybe the color of my skin irritated her.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a chat application. For the system design interview.
For the code architecture design a vending machine
And for the coding interview I didn’t understand so I don’t remember
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Praga) in Sep 2021
Interview
Four parts interview and offline coding tasks. After that I have two meeting with dev managers before final offer.
Overall the process was ver pleasant nad most interview turns into just talks
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Discussion about internals of grabage collector and JIT compiler
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Mar 2022
Interview
online coding round
1 technical interview
2 technical interview
3 technical interview & system design round
4 system design round
discussion with technical folks was good, but
had poor experience while interacting principal eng manager