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Microsoft Solutions Architect Interview
Questions & Process

What 134 candidates said about the rounds, the
questions and how long the wait really is.

From 134 candidate reports · FREE TO READ

2.8Rounds average
45.6Day average
AverageTypical difficulty
61.9%Positive experience

Questions candidates reported

Quoted word for word from Microsoft interview reports.

Engineering accounts for 10,860 of 134 reports, so company-wide questions may lean toward that function. Pick your role above for questions from your own loop.

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Formats, difficulty and experience

Across all 134 Microsoft interview reports.

Question formats

Behavioral33.5%
Technical28.7%
Other18.3%
System Design7.2%
Presentation4.9%

Interview difficulty

Easy16.4%
Average53%
Difficult30.6%

Candidate experience

Positive61.9%
Neutral16.4%
Negative21.6%

Reports by job function

Engineering10,860
Operations1,308
Product1,188
Sales1,054
Other762
Marketing542

The interview process

Described in candidates’ own words.

3 entretiens : un premier entretien technique avec deux experts, un entretien avec un manager et un business case pour évaluer et simuler une situation client face à un décideur business et un décideur technique.Candidate-reported process
All day event (6+ hour) with multiple deep dive interviews with different people from various backgrounds. Need to talk through and show confidence in many areas of cloud, sales and people skills. Might be asked to code or build something in Azure right on the spot.Candidate-reported process
2 phone, one group with 5 rounds. Each round was 44 mins with a 15 mins break after. Interviewers were nice and friendly. I could answer most of the questions.Candidate-reported process
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