Microsoft

Software Engineer Interview Experience - New Delhi, India

July 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Interview was chill, was asked standard DSA questions. Interviewer was nice and helping. Got rejection mail though. Coding round lasted for about 1.5 hours, did 2 normal DSA questions and 1 hard graph question.

Questions

Find N unique integers sum up to zero.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 28 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in New Delhi, India.

Success Rate

11%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive82%

Neutral14%

Negative4%

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

Microsoft Work Experiences

Great Culture, Amazing Balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 18, 2023

Pros: Good work culture, work-life balance.

Cons: Nothing, no, nothing, no, nothing.

Great Culture, Amazing Balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 18, 2023

Pros: Good work culture, work-life balance.

Cons: Nothing, no, nothing, no, nothing.

Honestly, a toss-up on quality. All depends on your team and manager

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Great pay and benefits, name recognition, interesting work, and I learned so much.

Cons: (Potentially a minority of teams at the company) High-pressure environments with little forgiveness for mistakes and low empathy.

Honestly, a toss-up on quality. All depends on your team and manager

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Great pay and benefits, name recognition, interesting work, and I learned so much.

Cons: (Potentially a minority of teams at the company) High-pressure environments with little forgiveness for mistakes and low empathy.

Great team, culture, and work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 22, 2018

Pros: Very open team, full of highly intelligent people. You can get ideas bounced between yourself and management very easily. It's a great place to learn and grow.

Cons: Very few downsides overall. Personally, I would have preferred offices with a little more personality.

Great team, culture, and work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 22, 2018

Pros: Very open team, full of highly intelligent people. You can get ideas bounced between yourself and management very easily. It's a great place to learn and grow.

Cons: Very few downsides overall. Personally, I would have preferred offices with a little more personality.

Great Culture, Amazing Balance

Software Engineer • Current Employee

January 18, 2023

Pros: Good work culture, work-life balance.

Cons: Nothing, no, nothing, no, nothing.

5.0
Great Culture, Amazing Balance
Software Engineer • Current Employee
January 18, 2023
Pros: Good work culture, work-life balance.
Cons: Nothing, no, nothing, no, nothing.

Honestly, a toss-up on quality. All depends on your team and manager

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Great pay and benefits, name recognition, interesting work, and I learned so much.

Cons: (Potentially a minority of teams at the company) High-pressure environments with little forgiveness for mistakes and low empathy.

4.0
Honestly, a toss-up on quality. All depends on your team and manager
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
May 29, 2021
Pros: Great pay and benefits, name recognition, interesting work, and I learned so much.
Cons: (Potentially a minority of teams at the company) High-pressure environments with little forgiveness for mistakes and low empathy.

Great team, culture, and work

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Redmond, Washington, United States

February 22, 2018

Pros: Very open team, full of highly intelligent people. You can get ideas bounced between yourself and management very easily. It's a great place to learn and grow.

Cons: Very few downsides overall. Personally, I would have preferred offices with a little more personality.

5.0
Great team, culture, and work
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Redmond, Washington, United States
February 22, 2018
Pros: Very open team, full of highly intelligent people. You can get ideas bounced between yourself and management very easily. It's a great place to learn and grow.
Cons: Very few downsides overall. Personally, I would have preferred offices with a little more personality.

Microsoft Interview Questions

Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable

You're given a directed graph. Determine the minimum number of edges you need to reverse so that every node becomes reachable from node 0.

GraphsDynamic Programming

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Valid Word

Determine if a given word is considered valid based on a specific set of rules or constraints. The goal is to check if the input string adheres to the specified validation criteria.

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