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Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 21 Nov 2024

Top Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Design elevators - How would you design how elevators work. How do you add different roles etc.
  • Q2. Given preorder and postorder traversal of a binary tree. Construct a binary tree and return inorder traversal.
  • Q3. Given two strings return true if both are anagrams of each other
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27 Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design Instagram feed

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Minimum spanning tree based data structure question

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Longest continuous subarray with absolute difference less than or equal to limit

2

Design Test Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Recommendation system

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Implement trie in vanilla javascript with a UI problem of creating, deleting nested HTML element

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Bhagyesh Varvdekar

posted on 17 Nov 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Code review questions about some unit tests

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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. How you can contribute to our team?
  • Q2. What motivate you to join us?
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

Coding Round 1
ZigZag Level order Traversal of Binary Tree.

I was not able to solve this problem and was not proceeded with next round of Interview.

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design a generic notification system.
  • Q2. LLD for a distributed cache service.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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posted on 16 Feb 2022

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Abhishek Chaurasia

posted on 26 Oct 2023

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Question related to my current work.
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design Memory Management system
4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. OS basics, locking mechanism, etc

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Leetcode island Graph problem

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 2 DS rounds, 1 HLD and LLD round, 1 HM

Microsoft Corporation Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer interview?
Microsoft Corporation interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Microsoft Corporation interview process are Coding Test, Technical and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Microsoft Corporation. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Microsoft Corporation expect are microsoft, C++, Computer science, Coding and Debugging.
What are the top questions asked in Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer interview -

  1. Design elevators - How would you design how elevators work. How do you add diff...read more
  2. Given preorder and postorder traversal of a binary tree. Construct a binary tre...read more
  3. Given two strings return true if both are anagrams of each ot...read more
How long is the Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer interview process?

The duration of Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about 2-4 weeks to complete.

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Interview Process at Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer

based on 17 interviews in last 1 year

2 Interview rounds

  • Coding Test Round
  • Assignment Round
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Job Portal
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14%
14%
7%
22% candidates got the interview through other sources.
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