🎯 Product
Microsoft interview
SDET (now mostly SDE roles that own testing)
Interview rounds
- 1Online assessment
- 2Several coding rounds
- 3Hiring manager (as-appropriate) round
What they focus on
- Linked lists, arrays, sorting
- Clean code and edge cases
- Testing your own code
💡 Tip: Testing is now part of SDE roles at Microsoft, so prepare like a developer and add strong test thinking to every answer.
Practice questions for Microsoft
Filter by your experience, and pick a language, automation tool or database for theory and coding. Topics reported for Microsoft come first; the “asked in most interviews” lists are general questions worth preparing for any company. Full question bank →
No specific language, tool or database was reported for Microsoft — it depends on the team. Pick what your job description mentions.
Theory
11 questions
Asked in most interviews · 29
29 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 29
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Microsoft. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
29 questions
Coding
10 questions
Asked in most interviews · 15
15 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 8
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Microsoft. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
8 questions
Behavioural & situational
1 question
Asked in most interviews · 26
26 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 7
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Microsoft. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
7 questions
Sources
- Microsoft Careers — How we hire (official)Official
- Glassdoor — Microsoft SDET interviews
- GitHub — AI engineer interview questions: Microsoft (Copilot leakage testing)
Summarised in our own words; processes change and vary by team, role and location.
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