Microsoft Senior Software Developer Engineer interview questions
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Senior Software Developer Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Developer Engineer roles take an average of 56 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 31 days.
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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.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC) in Mar 2026
Interview
1. Questions about technical feature you have implemented
2. About my nature of work, as IC role, the candidate needs to be hands on
3. DSA problem -> Hacker rank String with 0's and 1's. Find one pass approach to get consecutive 0 followed by 1
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