Microsoft Software Engineer Behavioral Questions
19+ questions from real Microsoft Software Engineer Behavioral rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the Microsoft Behavioral round test?
The Microsoft behavioral round focuses on past experience, leadership, and teamwork. Software Engineer candidates should prepare STAR-format responses covering conflict resolution, technical decision-making, and examples of impact at scale.
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Microsoft Software Engineer Behavioral Questions
Microsoft Hiring Event Interview: Rate Limiter and Ticket Booking System
Just had my Microsoft hiring event recently. I went in a bit underprepared and probably got screened out on coding. One thing that surprised me: none of the questions were the usual tagged LeetCode on
Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Full Loop
I finished my full loop 2 weeks ago and I had performed pretty good on 3/4 rounds. 1 round was not bad but I could have done better on my behavioral questions’ responses. After following up with the r
Microsoft Senior Software Engineer (L63) Interview Experience 2024
**Microsoft Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience** **Round 1: Data Structures and Algorithms** * **Problem:** Find the length of the longest contiguous sub-array where the sum of elements is
This was a hiring event conducted in Jan 2020. The hiring event consisted of 4 interviews 45 minutes each. All the rounds were fairly simple and they didn\'t even sweat...
Microsft | Onsite | Redmond
SDE2 interview 1st round : Rotate a N*N matrix in- place by 90 degrees in clockwise direction. 2nd round : https://leetcode.com/problems/missing-ranges/ and https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-window-substring/ 3rd Round: Behavioral questions and Write a function that counts...
I gave interview at Microsoft Noida, India in April end. A recruiter then contacted me for documents via mail and if I have any queries , I reach to him...
Microsoft | New Grad 59 | March 2021 [Offer]
Status: New BS&MS Grad Position: Software Engineer at Micrisoft Location: Redmond WA Date: March 2021 Interview Process 1 microsoft teams screen. No coding just chatting about my experience. Emailed a few days later to sign...
Hello everyone, Recently finished up the Microsoft 4 round onsite interview. This was for the entry-level position (USA). I don\'t know what level it is, but I will say I had...
YOE: 9 years Location: Redmond, WA. Position: SDE. They level after taking the interview, it was an Azure hiring event. The loop was very straight-forward. I had 4 interview questions, all of them...
Microsoft | SWE Intern | Redmond [No Offer]
First round was primarily behavioral, asked about projects and scalability. \t-More examples: why microsoft, tell me about a failure, etc. Second round: Similar, but not exact to --> https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/ \t-Problem had more constraints,...
Microsoft | SDE Intern (Offer) | Onsite
There were multiple candidates so there was a group fly round. The questions in this round were (i) Given a string as input find whether the string is accepted by a...
Microsoft Interview | Set 34 (On-Campus)
1st Round (Online) 15mcq 30mins – Most from C/C++. Few from OS2nd Round: Coding Online (1 hour) 1st quest: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dsa/intersection-of-two-sorted-l...
Microsoft | Onsite
Panel interview. Each interview starts off with about 15 mins of behavioral. The usual \'describe a time when...\'. Only one I\'ve never seen before is "describe a time when you...
[Microsoft] - Onsite - [Reject]
It was an easy interview. I messed up in the very last round(#124). Took way too long to come up with an answer, the interviewer didnt get time to ask...
Microsoft | Onsite Interview | 2019
4 Rounds First Round - Behavioural questions about current project Second Round - Find the median for a infinite series of integers Third Round - Find the number of steps needed to get...
Microsoft Onsite Atlanta [Reject]
New Grad Full time SWE Graduating this May Internship at a local company November 16th 2019: Onsite Interview on campus, time duration was about 30 minutes got asked lots of behavioural question and...
I was reffered by a friend on March 5th. On March 31st I had my interview with Microsoft. The interviewer told me it would take around one to two weeks...
Microsoft Initial Interview SWE New grad
No behavioral questions, just a single technical question: Given an inorder flattened BST, return the BST.
One of the Best Interview Experiences
From my experience, the best programming questions are the ones that have multiple approaches with different trade-offs. Observing someone tackle the same problem under different constraints can teach you a...
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