Microsoft Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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Senior Software 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.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Praga) in Sep 2021
Interview
Four parts interview and offline coding tasks. After that I have two meeting with dev managers before final offer.
Overall the process was ver pleasant nad most interview turns into just talks
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Discussion about internals of grabage collector and JIT compiler
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Mar 2022
Interview
online coding round
1 technical interview
2 technical interview
3 technical interview & system design round
4 system design round
discussion with technical folks was good, but
had poor experience while interacting principal eng manager
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublín, Dublín) in Mar 2022
Interview
3 Technical interviews on same day. 45bmins each with 15 mins of break.
1. Behavioral, coding, technical questions
2. System design, technical questions, Behavioral
3. Technical discussion, Behavioral
It was virtual interview. Interviewers were nice and friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Question
1. 3D matrix graph problem - codility
2. Implement load balancer - codility
3. Write code structure for wending machine. Design pattern focused. Implementation was not expected.
4. Hashmap, Graph and Tree technical questions