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Microsoft Software Engineer II interview questions

Updated May 14, 2026

based on 146 ratings

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Software Engineer II Interview

Sep 15, 2011

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Difficult interview

Application

The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jun 2009

Interview

There were two rounds of telephone interviews and then an onsite all day interviews. The process started from 9:00 AM and each interviewer takes about 45 min to One hour before they send you to the next one. There will be a lunch interview as well. The were some puzzles to solve and some core knowledge questions. Should be very thorough in basics.

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Question 1

There was a hard puzzle given to solve.

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Software Engineer II Interview

May 6, 2011

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2009

Interview

The interview was nice and asked a lot things about my research then moved on to a coding problem. The question was doing division with only addition and subtraction. Then, he asked about ways to improve the efficiency.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

What if the numbers are not integers ? What if the numbers are negative numbers ?

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Software Engineer II Interview

Aug 25, 2010

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2009

Interview

I was asked for appear for an interview for the team I was working as a contractor. There was 6 interviews lined up for the whole day. These are session split interview (morning/afternoon) and if you dont have a majority thumbs up in the first session then you cant go through the next session.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Write an algorithm to parse a string for all non white space characters

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