Technical Screen

Microsoft Software Engineer interview: dynamic programming and scheduling algorithms

MicrosoftSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

This was an on-campus process with two rounds on the same schedule. First I got a simple dynamic-programming question about counting ways to reach a target count. The second round shifted to scheduling algorithms: FCFS, SJF, and round-robin. They were not presented as trick questions. I felt reasonably comfortable with both the DP logic and the scheduler implementations. I did not get an offer. M…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.