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Microsoft Sr. Software Engineer interview questions

based on 308 ratings - Updated Jun 12, 2026

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Senior Software Engineer Interview

Jan 26, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

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Difficult interview

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tallinn) in Mar 2020

Interview

There were three steps in the interview process. First I had and HR call and then I did an online test and got a full score. Finally, I had a four-sessions onsite interview which was held online.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

In the first session I solved a programming problem which was about data structures and algorithms with a manager from Microsoftç

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Senior Software Engineer Interview

Jan 15, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2020

Interview

First 1 hour screening interview on Microsoft Teams, with a programming question to solve in a text editor. Then 4 1 hour interviews with four members of the Hololens team, one of program design, 3 of technical programming question.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How to approach finding words from a dictionary of valid words in a grid of letters. Some other average programming questions. No question that would really differentiate a good computer graduate from a more experimented programmer, it was very scholar.

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Senior Software Engineer Interview

Dec 22, 2020

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

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The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Dec 2020

Interview

4 rounds of interview process including Partner group manger. All were technical round and it was back to back. Recruiters were very helpful. This requirement was for Azure compute development team

Interview questions [4]

Question 1

Round 1 - Given a snapshot of Chessboard, find out if king is under attack

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Question 2

Round 2 - a. Design the dropbox/g drive client b. Print a b tree in zig zag order

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Question 3

Round 3 - Design a API throttling system

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Question 4

Round 4 (Partner Group Manager) Design Scalable Job scheduling system. After high level design he asked me to design DB tables

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Senior Software Engineer Interview

Jan 26, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tallinn) in Mar 2020

Interview

There were three steps in the interview process. First I had and HR call and then I did an online test and got a full score. Finally, I had a four-sessions onsite interview which was held online.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

In the first session I solved a programming problem which was about data structures and algorithms with a manager from Microsoftç

Answer question

Senior Software Engineer Interview

Jan 15, 2021

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2020

Interview

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

1 Answer

Senior Software Engineer Interview

Dec 22, 2020

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Dec 2020

Interview

4 rounds of interview process including Partner group manger. All were technical round and it was back to back. Recruiters were very helpful. This requirement was for Azure compute development team

Interview questions [4]

Question 1

Round 1 - Given a snapshot of Chessboard, find out if king is under attack

Answer question

Question 2

Round 2 - a. Design the dropbox/g drive client b. Print a b tree in zig zag order

Answer question

Question 3

Round 3 - Design a API throttling system

Answer question

Question 4

Round 4 (Partner Group Manager) Design Scalable Job scheduling system. After high level design he asked me to design DB tables

Answer question

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