Microsoft Junior Software Developer interview questions
Updated Jan 14, 2026
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2021
Interview
First, general interview: general questions about you, your view on programming, explain recursion to child, and simple puzzle.
After that two Independent technical interviews. the length of each is 1 hour, but the second interviewer pulled the time to an hour and a half
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions:
0. Puzzle: You have 9 stones with equal weight, but 1. You have to find the different stone by weighing twice on libra,
1. find way in maze.
2. Bull's Eye game
3. Design interface with low methods complexity
Tell me about your projects, the challenges with the team, what was your past of the project. Why do you want to work in Microsoft, tell me about yourself, what is OOP
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2021
Interview
Multiple interviews in three different stages. Some behavioral questions to start each interview followed by one to two coding questions. Questions were tweaked to be slightly harder after each solution was presented to keep you thinking.