Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions
based on 1.2K ratings - Updated Jul 22, 2025
Averageinterview difficulty
Very positiveinterview experience
How others got an interview
57%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
18%
Applied online
Applied online
12%
Recruiter
Recruiter
10%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
1%
Staffing Agency
Staffing Agency
1%
In Person
In Person
1%
Other
Other
Interview search
1,152 interviews
Viewing 511 - 515 of 1,152 Interviews
Microsoft interviews FAQs
Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 46 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2015
Interview
I had a Initial Phone Screen Interview and had five technical rounds , In all interviews i had to talk about my past projects and work on a coding question.
Just Putting in the onsite interview questions
Given a array of shares , find when you have to buy and sell shares to get max profit.
Searching in a sorted array
Reverse words in a sentence
Longest Palindrome in a string
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I applied online early in September, the process was quick. I got a email from them saying that they are interested in interviewing. So I said yes. I prepared writing code and everything. However, the first interview is ALL about behavior questions. And talking about different programming languages and etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I think I gave a really bad answer when he ask the most difficult technical problem that you have encountered. And I didn't prepare for that at all, which is my fault indeed...
1 technical phone screen interview followed by 5 onsite interviews. The phone screen was very straightforward. The onsite were completely technical and thorough. However if you are very comfortable with all the tree, LL, graph questions then you should be able to a decent job. All the interviewers were very friendly and always gave hints etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Designing memory management system. Coming straight out of college, I am not used to this. But the interviewer gave me enough pointers that I was able to do a decent job.