Microsoft Software Engineer System Design Questions

Position: E63 Summary: Horrible Interview Experience. All the rounds were 45 mins long and to my surprise each interviewer almost spent 25-30 mins asking behavioral questions - Conflict resolution and Collaboration...

Given 2 rounds for Microsoft last saturday. # Round 1 - DSA Interviewer was friendly and pasted directly a medium-hard level graph question in editor. At this point of time i was literally crying from

A breakdown of my recent 3-round interview process at Mircosoft for SDE II. The focus was heavily on Low-Level Design (LLD) and the reasoning behind architectural choices. YOE : Almost 5 years. # Roun

I recent completed SDE2 loop and wanted to share my experience, takeways & tips from the interview process. --- - System Design with Senior Engineer - Design a rate Limitter & general questions regard

I recent completed SDE2 loop and wanted to share my experience. Current Experience - 4.5 year Three rounds happened on Friday as part of the hiring event drive, and the AA happened the following week

Interview Experience – Senior Backend / Ads / Distributed Systems (5 Rounds) --- ## 🔹 Round 1 – Coding + Ads Fundamentals **Focus Areas:** - Project deep dive - 3–4 behavioral questions - Complete A

Hi everyone, I’ve been selected for a loop interview at Microsoft for a Senior Software Engineer role, and I’m looking for guidance on how to prepare effectively. I’d really appreciate insights from p

I have a Microsoft SDE 2 interview coming up and wanted to get some recent perspectives before I go in. A bit of context – the role is in the AI and Cloud org. Not sure if that changes the bar or the

I have a Microsoft SDE2 interview loop coming up for a CoreAI team. It’s 4 rounds (System Design, Coding, Behavioral), and **one coding round is explicitly AI-assisted** (they mentioned VS Code + GitH

**Profile & Application** * **Role:** SDE-2 at Microsoft * **Experience:** 4.5 Years (Tier 1 College, Product-based firm) * **Process:** Applied via the career portal; all interview rounds were schedu

The second round consisted of two coding problems to be solved within one hour. The first challenge involved finding a specific word in a grid of characters, where the word could be formed horizontall

Q1. Given a 2d matrix `matrix`, find if you can reach from 0,0 to m-1,n-1 cell in given time `T` or not. The grid has some cells blocked, can only move in 4 directions, top/bottom/left/right. Q2. http

Anyone attended the Microsoft hiring drive on 14th Feb, how many rounds were held today. Kindly comments your status. PS: I had attended the hiring drive, as conveyed to me earlier...

For context, I have about 9 years of software engineering experience and I’ve never worked at any of the MAG 7 companies before. I actually failed interviews at Meta, Google, Roblox, Snapchat, and Tik

Hey Guys, I recently gave Microsoft Interview for L60 role. ***First round:*** The first round was the toughest, the interviewer had like 15 years of experience, and we straight away got to the questi

I am listing the common low level design questions that you will come across during Microsoft interviews. I have built this list from recent interview experiences of candidates. Apart from LLD, I have

Hey everyone, I have an upcoming Microsoft hiring event and wanted to get some insights from folks who’ve recently gone through the process. The loop includes: • 3 coding rounds • 1 system design roun

Hi everyone, I've been in this community for a while and appreciate the work y'all do to support each other. I thought I'd give back and share my interview experience with Microsoft. **1st interview**

First Round – 1. Explain current project. 2. Mongo DB vs MySQL.3. Singleton class and its application.4. Print all pairs with given sum[Pseudo code]Second round –1. Given ...

I went through a drive on Jan 10th with Microsoft Developer Division Team (Hyderabad Location). The drive was successful for me as within a week HR confirmed it to me...