Microsoft Sr Software Engineer interview questions

Very friendly. Very interactive. Open to listening to and exploring your solutions even if it differs from the one expected by the interviewer. Four different interviewers one of which is the hiring manager for the position.

Got referred by an engineering manager there, so my first interview was with a staff engineer. This was the worst interview experience I've ever had in my 10+ year career working at 7 companies and doing lots of interviews in between. The interview is based on these silly leetcode brainteaser kind of questions that is designed to make candidates fail if they didn't specifically study for these kinds of questions and were lucky enough to have a chance to see a question that they've seen before where they can memorize the algorithm and the answer, instead of any actual real life software engineering skills.