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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
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Apr 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

DSA based arrays , graph and strings

2

Assignment Round

HLD discussion for scalable product

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image rakesh bhaviripudi

posted on 21 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I was interviewed in Oct 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

Best time to buy a stock question was asked

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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

It's medium and leetcode questions.

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Given a tree, connect it horizontally.
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design an algorithm to write content to a screen
4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design an Elastic Load balancer
5

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Project related questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep your mind open - look at how you can extend your solutions.
And ask clarifying questions

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Find element in rotated sorted array

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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2

Coding Test Round

1 Hour, DSA, Face to face

3

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Design a parking lot

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Think through your approach before discussing with interviwer.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Sudhanshu Barthwal

posted on 29 Nov 2022

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Reverse linked list, array quesion, graph quesion, dbms question, os question

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Design parking lot and dp question
  • Q2. Dynamic programming question to be solved

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just work on DSA. Do leetcode. Practice design question by listening to youtube videos

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Pradeep Itnal

posted on 3 Mar 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Mar 2023.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

They will ask you random questions from LeetCode . Be good in trees, arrays etc

2

Coding Test Round

Depends i had 2 Leetcode tests

3

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Behavioral round, different technologies used, explain the complex feature you had developed!
  • Q2. Tell me a time when you had a bad experience with a colleague.
4

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Managerial round, more on behavioral questions. about your back ground etc

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be aware of recruiters they try to low ball you do enough research!
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Apr 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Find a free IP range in an infinite pool of reserve IPs
  • Q2. Print the content of a spiral matrix
  • Q3. Design a parking lot

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare DSA well, see a lot of scalable architecture videos if not worked on them directly

Skills evaluated in this interview

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions

user image Diwakar Mishra

posted on 10 Apr 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 4-6 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Apr 2023.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Find range of numbers in an infinite array

2

Assignment Round

Design a tree view for mobile with infinite nodes and collapsible using react-native

3

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Discussion about my project and related questions
  • Q2. Explain the tech stack, pros and cons

Skills evaluated in this interview

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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