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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jan 31, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jan 2019

      Interview

      I interviewed twice for different positions at Microsoft Israel for the role Senior Software Engineer. The first interview was onsite, I was asked different algorithm questions which I successfully answered. The interview was around 2 hours and 4 questions was asked. I answered all the questions very fast and wrote the code on the whiteboard. I was told that I passed the interview and the recruiter called to schedule the next one. She said she has to check available hours and will call later. The next time she called, I was told that they chose another candidate. The second attempt was also onsite. Instead of algorithm questions, I was asked very low-level type of questions. The question was more related to an Embedded Software Engineer position. Like implement alloc and free. None of the questions required to write any code and the overall experience of the interview was quite chaotic. The interviewer jumped from topic to topic. With only one hint on one question I answered all the questions and was told that I passed the interview. I was told that I have to do a programming assignment at home. They gave me a very short period of time (only 24 hours) for that. I did the assignment on time and sent it. There was no answer from Microsoft for around a week, and after a question about a small update, I got an email says that they chose another candidate. I was expecting they would at least call me and let me know why the assignment was not good enough.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Easy-Medium questions from LeetCode
      Answer question

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      Jun 20, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 16, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Vancouver, BC
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)

      Interview

      HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round. System design was intensive and challenging. It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

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      Senior Software Developer Interview

      Jun 23, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jun 2026

      Interview

      I got call via microsoft HR. She informed there will be 4 rounds of technical interviews all eliminator. Round 1 interview was a mid level graph question. The interviewer was actively involved, understood my logic, approach, challneged my assumeptions, did a dryrun at end, good experience. Round 2 inteviewer was extremely lazy and passive. It was a bad experience. He gave a problem statement of sliding window and disappeared. Wasn't intrested in hearing approach or even reading code. He came after 30 minutes , did a dry run and final output wasn't exactly correct. I identified a logical bug and started correcting it. He said there is no need , just finished the interview after that. The code i had written was optimal code but he didn't care to read that also. And there was still 20 minutes left. It gave me impression that interviewer in not at all interested in taking interview and they have been pushed my management. HR called next day to say i am not selected.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      a graph question involving dfs
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