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Microsoft
Just startedThe bar: Solid fundamentals, clean code, and the ability to discuss trade-offs like a working engineer.
Interviewers share feedback between rounds, so later rounds may probe a gap an earlier one spotted.
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Early days. Work the Microsoft sheet in order and let the planner pace you.
The loop
- 1Online assessment
Codility or HackerRank, two to three problems in 90 minutes.
- 2Round 1
Data structures, often linked lists, strings or trees, on a whiteboard or Teams shared editor.
- 3Round 2
Problem solving plus practical engineering discussion about your projects.
- 4As appropriate round
Skip level or hiring manager round mixing design, culture and one more problem.
What actually matters here
- Microsoft loves classic data structure manipulation. Linked list surgery and tree recursion come up constantly.
- Write production quality code: naming, null checks, and small helper functions get noticed.
- Be ready to explain your resume projects at depth, this round is real and it counts.
- Expect at least one question on strings or matrices in almost every loop.
- The as appropriate round can be an extra chance, not a bad sign.
Difficulty mix they ask
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Microsoft sheet
Ordered by how much this company cares about the topic, then by how often the problem appears.
The core set for this company.
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