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      Sr. Software Engineer Interview

      Apr 16, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (Los Angeles, CA)

      Interview

      Round - Screening with hiring manager. Discussed about projects and 1 DSA (Med] Loop Rounds: Round 1 - DSA (Med) + projects discussion Round 2 - DSA (Hard) + Behavioral Round 3 - LLD + Behavioral Round 4 - LLD + Behavioral

      Other Sr. Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Microsoft

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      May 30, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Jose, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (San Jose, CA)

      Interview

      Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Leet code medium level questions. DFS, BFS, sliding windows and greedy algorithm. Follow up, asking some design questions and the time complexity of the code.
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Senior Interview

      Apr 8, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      McLean, VA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Microsoft (McLean, VA)

      Interview

      Phone interview with hiring manager for 45 minutes primarily a tech interview. Focused on questions directly related to tech stack. Come prepared knowing design questions and how those conversations go.

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