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Opportunity to work with and learn from very smart people, and contribute to industry-leading technologies.
A strong engineering culture and an overall positive work environment.
Bureaucratic challenges can make progress slow and difficult. The shift toward much stricter HR policies is eroding trust with employees.
Continue to prioritize flexibility and freedom for the strongest performers, or they will leave for other companies which either pay more and/or offer better flexibility.
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Microsoft Interview Questions
Microsoft Interview Experiences
Senior Software Engineer - Manager
3-5 rounds. Most of them are algorithms. Usually, the original problem can be found on LeetCode. These are usually medium problems. Algorithms, communication, and problem-solving are the major parts that we consider when qualifying a person.
Software Engineer Intern
Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
Senior Software Engineer - Manager
JapanOctober 30, 20223-5 rounds. Most of them are algorithms. Usually, the original problem can be found on LeetCode. These are usually medium problems. Algorithms, communication, and problem-solving are the major parts that we consider when qualifying a person.
Software Engineer Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Very straightforward, two back-to-back thirty-minute technical interviews that had a combination of LeetCode easy and medium questions, along with some behavioral questions that were sprinkled in there.
Software Engineering Intern
Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
