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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Bucharest, Romania

March 21, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process consisted of three rounds:

  • An online assessment with two LeetCode-style problems of medium difficulty involving graphs and dynamic programming.
  • A system design round focused on designing a rate limiter at scale.
  • A behavioral round with standard competency questions.

Interviewers were professional and gave clear feedback between rounds.

Questions

Design a system that handles 100,000 requests per second with rate limiting per user and per IP. Walk me through your architecture choices.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Bucharest, Bucharest.

Success Rate

33%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Bucharest, Bucharest is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%
Neutral33%
Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Engineer interview process in Bucharest, Bucharest.

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