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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Vancouver, Canada

August 25, 2026
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied online. The process took 3 months.

  • Technical screen with hiring manager.
  • Three loop interviews. They were supposed to be back-to-back, but with a lot of ghosting and rescheduling, I haven't finished the last round yet.

All 3 rounds (technical screen and 2 loop interviews) had 30 minutes of behavioral questions and 30 minutes for coding challenges. For the coding challenges, one round was to implement EventEmitter, which was pretty easy. Another one was to implement a HashMap; the interviewer gave some hints and some implementation, such as the hash function, so it was pretty easy too. Another coding challenge was JavaScript promise-related, since it's a frontend role. Overall, the experience was pretty good.

Questions

The topics were to implement a HashMap, implement an EventEmitter, and answer Promise-related questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 22 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Engineer role in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Success Rate

27%
Pass Rate

Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Vancouver, British Columbia is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive68%
Neutral27%
Negative5%

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

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