Microsoft Software Engineer Technical Screen Questions

Honestly, I have no idea how i got the interview. I have been randomly applying for places the last month or so after not interviewing for almost a decade. I've changed jobs 4-5 times over my career,

**Problem Statement** Given $n$ log servers, where each server holds multiple log files already sorted by timestamp, the objective is to merge all files from all servers into a single output stream th

Following a shortlist by the recruiter, two technical interviews were scheduled for October 28, 2025. The first round lasted one hour and focused on a graph algorithm challenge with a supportive inter

Recently, I have completed 4 interview rounds at Microsoft, and I though I have aced all the rounds by optimal solutions and solutions for the follow up questions. Today HR have reached me and said th

what data structure will be used to create a application like excel. We need to support. GetCellData SetCellData DeleteCell - this shoud come up with an option move content left or up. Any idea...

For my internship appliaction, I received slight variants of the following problems: 242. Valid Anagram: Given 2 strings s and t, return true if they are anagrams of each other. s...

30 minutes interview with a member of the team. After a short introduction, I had to solve a problem. You are given two 8-characters long strings made of A, G, C...

I recently interviewed for an entry-level Software Engineer role at Microsoft, and as there are not many posts talking about NA experiences, I thought I\u2019d share my experience. I recieved...

YOE: 3+ years Education: B.Tech in CS Tier 1 Round1: Coding & basic questions 1.Decode a string recursively encoded as count followed by substring \t\tInput : str[] = "2[a2[b]]" \t\tOutput : abbabb 2. What is the...

Hi all, I have a Microsoft Leap interview on 7/27 - is there anyone who has gone through the process for swe and can provide some guidance on types of technical...

As written in the title I did an internship with Microsoft India in summer of \'22 and got the PPO. Number of rounds : 3(Presentation, Technical, AA(As Appropriate)) Presentation: This is a...

Hi folks, Went through the last few months of interview questions being asked by microsoft and compiled them into a list based upon the DS / Algorithms. Microsoft Questions - 2022 The questions...

You are given a binary matrix (with 1\'s and 0\'s) of size n x n. you have to divide the matrix into 4 sections by dividing it by one row...

What is the right data structure to store millions of IP-Addresses (they can be both of type IPV4 and IPV6)? I was asked this question in the Microsoft Interview. Is a...

I have attended miicrosoft interview for frontend at bangalore I have 6 years of experience in frontend Round1 - machine coding : Design a weekly calendar view Page shows seven columns, one...

Question 1: Given Speed X units/minute, calculate the maximum time taken to travel between any 2 stations. Stations is an array of x,y co-ordinates [[x1,y1],[x2,y2],...], and distance is calculated using euclidean...

Online Round :Online Round was conducted on mettl platform1. Simple Array manipulation question2.https://www.codechef.com/problems/ENCD123. Simple dp questionGroup Fly Rou...

Coding Round : Binary tree was given. Return a tree such that each internal node stores sum of all its child nodes. Each leaf node stores zero. One DP question : htt...

Today, I attended my first technical interview in virtual mode,through Microsoft Teams Meeting Platform. 1) Introduce Yourself 2) Do you worked on any project?explain Your role in that. 3) Interviwer the asked...

I am currently a 4th year undergraduate at one of the new IIIT. I started my DSA journey on 19th Dec 2021. -> I started quite late with coding as I...