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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Aug 8, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Barcelona
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Barcelona) in Apr 2024

      Interview

      First step was online coding exercise whic was really two hard questions, leetcode hard level or maybe more. After passing that, there was a silence for a month and the recruiter disappeared. After that, another recruiter contacted me and asked me if i could have 4 interviews in a row on a fixed date, not earlier, not later. I had to accept it and I had 4 intervies that last for 6 hours. First one was easy to medium coding interview which you had to ask a lot of questions to determine the problem briefly, and find the edge cases. The interviewer was friendly and helping you to solve the problem. Second interview was about database design and querying related questions which was easy in my opinion Third one was system design and it was about commenting on an existing design, the interviewer was asking about the problems and possible solutions about the system, how we can make it better. The fourth one was about cultural fit, I kinda feel that the interviewer was bored and again cliche questions related to work life. And after all the interviews I had a very positive opinions from the interviewers, I thought finally I will be able to get the job, but unfortunately I didn't have any feedback from the recruiter, they haven't answered me with anything even though i sent them several mails about the result. I will not waste my time again interviewing with Microsoft.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      system design, medium coding question, database queries
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 20, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft

      Interview

      Full loop , 1st - one coding, behavioural 2nd - 1 coding, 1 system design 1 behavioural 3rd - 1 system design, 1 behavioural 4th - 1 coding 1 behavioural

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      e commerce system, ambiguity handling
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 16, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Vancouver, BC
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)

      Interview

      HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round. System design was intensive and challenging. It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content
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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      Jun 23, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026

      Interview

      I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      a graph question involving dfs
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