Microsoft Software Engineer Senior interview questions
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Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.
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Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Australia Plains) in Apr 2026
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Step 0: the recruiter sends you an email for scheduling a call with her/him + technical topics to be covered by 3 short questions asked by the hiring team
Step 1: HR call - describing the role and team. and asks 3 technical questions
Step 2: Coding interview with one of the engineers in the team. The live coding is taking place in HackerRank - LC questions. Make sure you are familiar with the platform. There are NO examples in the interview itself
Unfortunately, my interviewer confused me with the examples, and I couldn't really understand which rate limiter implementation is required (fixed, window, sliding window, token bucket etc.)
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What is a WebSocket, when do you use it, and how is it diff from an HTTP call?
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Apr 2026
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screening with the recruter then day of interviwe includ system desing , manger and coding round
screening with the recruter then day of interviwe includ system desing , manger and coding round
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