# Microsoft Software Engineer Interview Questions Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/guides/microsoft-software-engineer-interview/questions Source observed: 2026-11-04T22:42:55.356Z Last checked: 2026-11-04T22:42:55.356+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T19:56:54.33+00:00 --- # Microsoft Software Engineer Interview Questions We are Aced, formerly Exponent. This page helps candidates prepare for software engineering interviews at Microsoft through a collection of interview questions. Microsoft candidates updated the collection a month ago. The Microsoft company identity is represented with our Microsoft logo image: ![Microsoft logo](https://exponent-static.s3.amazonaws.com/company_logos/microsoft.png) ## Microsoft software engineer interview resources - [Expert guide](https://www.aced.io/guides/microsoft-software-engineer-interview) - [Interview experiences — 25](https://www.aced.io/guides/microsoft-software-engineer-interview/experiences) - [Questions — 102](https://www.aced.io/guides/microsoft-software-engineer-interview/questions) - [Resumes — 138](https://www.aced.io/guides/microsoft-software-engineer-interview/resumes) ## Trending questions These are the currently displayed trending software engineer interview questions associated with Microsoft. Each question can be opened for details and practiced through Aced. 1. [What's your favorite product and why? Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/20/favorite-product) — 334 answers; displayed as a question from a month ago, with additional company associations shown for Nike and Stripe. 2. [How have you adopted AI in your workflows? Walk through examples.](https://www.aced.io/questions/6396/describe-ai-adoption-workflow-examples) — 7 answers; displayed as a question from 20 days ago, with additional company associations shown for Rakuten and DoorDash. 3. [Tell me about a time you made a mistake. Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/240/mistake) — 117 answers; displayed as a question from 28 days ago, with additional company associations shown for Meta and JP Morgan. 4. [Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone and how you resolved it.](https://www.aced.io/questions/1350/time-disagreed-someone-resolved) — 71 answers; displayed as a question from a month ago, with additional company associations shown for Justworks and Apple. 5. [Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?](https://www.aced.io/questions/140/conflict-resolution-learning) — 40 answers; displayed as a question from 2819 days ago, with additional company associations shown for Salesforce and Apple. 6. [Design LFU cache.](https://www.aced.io/questions/6401/design-lfu-cache-system) — 3 answers; displayed as a question from a month ago, with LinkedIn also associated. 7. [Design a system to log messages in order](https://www.aced.io/questions/4907/design-system-log-messages-in-order) — 15 answers; displayed as a question from 2 months ago, with Revolut and Google also associated. 8. [Tell me about yourself. Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/104/tell-me-about-yourself) — 134 answers; displayed as a question from 1077 days ago, with Tesla and Brex also associated. 9. [Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about it. Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/107/tell-me-about-time-solved-complex-problem) — 31 answers; displayed as a question from 102 months ago, with Revolut and Amazon also associated. 10. [Tell me about a time you took a calculated risk when speed was critical. Has video answer](https://www.aced.io/questions/996/calculated-risk-taken-speed-critical) — 12 answers; displayed as a question from 4 months ago, with Amazon also associated. 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