Microsoft Software Engineer Internship interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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2 interview process were there in which the first one is purely dsa round and the second one was mix of resume and system design round in which there were questions asked from behavioural as well
I was given 2-3 leetcode style problems focused on hashing, graphs, and trees. Time limit was roughly 1 hour and 30 minutes. This was the online assessment, nothing heard after that so far.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2025
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Consisted of one super day where I answered a different technical question each round. Interviewers were tough and did not provide much help or feedback, and wanted to see you struggle to see how you handled it. Very little small talk/more traditional "behaviorial" questions
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