Behavioral round on company valuesBehavioralA behavioral round anchored on the company's published values: bring experiences covering conflict, feedback, mentorship, leading work and technical trade-offs. Reported on…
Last asked Sep 2026
Microsoft recruiter screen interview
Round 1 of 5 · 16 questions reported
- Format
- Short call
- They grade
- Logistics and level
Questions Microsoft asks in this round 16
- Project deep dive: present a project you ledBehavioralPresent a project you led in about 20 minutes: context, your role, the architecture, three hard trade-offs, metrics, cost and return, and what you would change. Then take 25…Last asked Sep 2026
- Why this company, why this role, and why nowBehavioralIntroduce yourself, then explain why you want this company and this role, and why you are looking to move now. Name a few traits that make you a fit for the team, account for past…Last asked Sep 2026
- How do you use AI in your work?BehavioralDescribe how AI tools fit into your engineering work: where they help, where they fail, how you verify their output, and how they have changed the way you or your team work.Last asked Sep 2026
- Design a recommender for local sports teams and newsML designRecommend local sports teams, and the news about them, to each user. Discuss what data you collect and how it is produced, what you know about the user (location, follows…Last asked Jun 2026
- Lowest common ancestor in a BST and in a binary treeCodingGiven two nodes, return their lowest common ancestor first in a binary search tree, using the ordering, and then in a plain binary tree where you cannot rely on it. Explain both…Last asked Jun 2026
- Collaborating with teammates across regions and from homeBehavioralYour team is spread over several regions and some people work from home. How do you collaborate in each setting: overlap hours, written communication, decisions, keeping people in…Last asked Sep 2026
- Negative feedback you received and what you changedBehavioralTell me about a time you got negative feedback. A good answer picks feedback that stung and pointed at a real gap, describes how you reacted in the moment, what you did…Last asked Sep 2026
- Rank the criteria you would use to choose among candidatesBehavioralEight people are applying for the same role. What would you judge them on, and in what order of importance? The ranking is the point: explain why each criterion sits above the…Last asked Sep 2026
- You will miss a deadline: what do you do, and why not add engineers?BehavioralPartway through a task you own, you realize it cannot ship by its deadline. Walk through what you do: when and how you raise it, what options you put on the table (cut scope, move…Last asked Sep 2026
- A technical disagreement and a colleague who works differentlyBehavioralDescribe a technical disagreement with another engineer or a lead and how it got resolved. Then describe working well with someone whose working style differed from yours. A…Last asked Sep 2026
- Requirements changed in the middle of the projectBehavioralTell me about a project whose requirements changed while you were building it. Say exactly what changed and how you found out, what you did in the following days, which calls were…Last asked Sep 2026
- Long blockers, missed deadlines and where your career is headingBehavioralSeveral questions across a loop: a time you were blocked for a long time and how you got unblocked; a missed deadline or a user complaint and how you handled it; and where you…Last asked Aug 2026
- Cross-team dependencies and conflicts over scopeBehavioralTell me about work that depended on another team, where priorities or scope clashed. How did you find out, how did you negotiate, what did you escalate and when, and how did it…Last asked Apr 2026
- Pack fine-tuning samples into fixed-length sequencesCodingFor supervised fine-tuning, pack many tokenized samples of different lengths into sequences of a fixed maximum length so little space is wasted. Return the packed sequences with…Last asked Apr 2026
- Behavioral round on ambiguity, conflict and your proudest projectBehavioralA 45-minute behavioral conversation that digs deep into a few of your stories: a project you are proudest of, a conflict with a colleague, a time the goal was unclear, and how you…Last asked Feb 2026