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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 6, 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Berlin) in May 2020

      Interview

      I applied to an ad for Berlin, and I have learned later that this ad was for multiple locations in Europe and there were no open positions for Berlin. They contacted me with an email to have a quick phone screen almost a month later. Then after that they've sent a codility test. Which I've passed easily. After the codility test they set up 4 interviews as a "hiring event". And due to COVID-19 all was to be done online. The day before one of the interviews were cancelled. And I had completed other three interviews. But didn't get a feedback for 10 days. After that I have emailed to the recruiter about feedback on the interview. She told me that she has moved to other projects and another person will contact me about it. After another week I was called by another recruiter and he said that feedback from that 3 interview was positive and they want to have a replacement interview for the cancelled one. And I will be contacted for that interview in a couple of days. Two weeks passed and there were no contact. And I did not remember the name of the new recruiter and did not have his email but used the contact recruiter button on the Microsoft Action Center and asked them about this interview. That was almost a month ago and MS did not contact me since. It's been almost 5 months since I applied and almost a month and a half since last contact I have received from MS. And I am really dissapointed how unprofessionally handled my process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a Library. (Not a SW library, a library for books)
      Answer question
      3

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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

      Sr. Software Engineer Interview

      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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