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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Jose, California

May 30, 2026
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It started with a recruiter phone call and a 30-minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role, since the job was based in Seattle, and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on-site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral, mostly LeetCode medium-level questions, which I finished, and I was able to do all the follow-up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly. After the interview, I got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.

Questions

There were LeetCode medium-level questions involving DFS, BFS, sliding windows, and greedy algorithms. The interviewer asked a follow-up about some design questions and the time complexity of the code.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Microsoft Senior Software Engineer role in San Jose, California.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Jose, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral33%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Microsoft's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Jose, California.

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