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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 19, 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2018

      Interview

      I was initially contacted by recruiter over LinkedIn with generic message on 21st November. I replied on 22nd and sent hime my resume. The recruiter disappeared. When I pinged him again on December 6th, he replied and we had a phone conversation. He told me that he will forward my resume to hiring managers in Azure. He then disappeared again for 2 weeks. When I pinged him again just after christmas, he said he will get back to me again. He again disappeared and finally replied on 10th January that couple of teams in Azure are interested. He asked me send him over time slots for phone screening. I did and then it was radio silence again. In first week of february, recruiter told me to send my new availabilities for phone screenign. I did again. Finally my phone screen was set. The phone screen was held using Skype for business, which does not have client for Ubuntu. So I managed to get hold of a mac for interview. The interviewer also did not know how to use the Skype for business. He asked me some design questions. At the end when I asked interviewer about when I should expect to hear from recruiter, he said "Your guess is as good as mine". When I told him about the long process I have been part of, he promised to expedite the process. And sure enough after 3 days I learned that I have cleared the phone screening. But recruiter called me and told me that I should not have complained about the long time for me to get phone screening and it looks bad for me and I should refrain from mentioning this again in on-site interview. It has been a week, but my onsite has not been scheduled, despite me telling the recruiter that I have other interviews lined up. It doesn't matter, as I am not going on on-site interview anyway.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Explain Lambda and Kappa patterns for big data pipelines
      Answer question
      6

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 30, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (San Jose, CA)

      Interview

      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.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      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.
      Answer question

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      Apr 16, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Los Angeles, CA)

      Interview

      Round - Screening with hiring manager. Discussed about projects and 1 DSA (Med] Loop Rounds: Round 1 - DSA (Med) + projects discussion Round 2 - DSA (Hard) + Behavioral Round 3 - LLD + Behavioral Round 4 - LLD + Behavioral

      Software Engineer Senior Interview

      Apr 8, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      McLean, VA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (McLean, VA)

      Interview

      Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.

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