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Principal Software Engineer Interview Experience - Madrid, Spain

June 11, 2026
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Process

I applied online. The process took two weeks.

  • Technical screening
  • Three technical interviews

Interviews had half of the time conversation about experience, past projects, and way of working, and half of it design questions with a bit of coding in one of them with an online tool.

Questions

System Design Questions were related to reliability and performance, and they included questions about data structures related to the problems discussed.

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Microsoft's interview process for their Principal Software Engineer roles in Madrid, Madrid is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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