Microsoft Sr Software Engineer interview questions
based on 311 ratings - Updated Jun 23, 2026
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One recruiter call, then one meetup with two technical members of the team. We talked about my previous jobs and career challenges. I was given one technical task related to OOP design. I failed to do that in the timely manner so I didn't proceed with next rounds which are three back to back meetings with behavioral questions and technical challenges on the topics of algorithms, system design and object-oriented design.
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My career experience, particularly related to leadership and lead efforts.
get several round of interviews with different people in Microsoft, sometime long sometime short, sometime have longer distance of time and sometimes have shorter distance time of elapsed time. That is all.
Started with a phone interview asking questions about skills and how long i have used those skills. Also asked what i am comfoetable woth and if you are ok with certain skills thay want to focus on