A Microsoft mock interview on Devana is a voice interview with an AI interviewer on one of 58 Microsoft-style questions from Devana's bank: 24 coding, 12 system design, 12 technical deep dives and 10 behavioral. Your code runs, the interviewer asks follow-ups, and you get a score out of 100. Company question sets are on the Free plan. Devana is not affiliated with Microsoft, and these are not leaked or confirmed Microsoft questions.
What the Microsoft software engineer interview looks like
Microsoft's interview tips page says the steps vary by role: you may meet potential teammates and cross-functional colleagues, and some roles include coding exercises, a portfolio review or presenting work samples. For software engineers, candidates commonly describe a recruiter call and a technical screen, then a set of interviews with the team; treat the count as reported.
Microsoft names the qualities it looks for (growth mindset, collaboration, customer focus, and diversity and inclusion) and recommends answering behavioral questions with STAR(R): Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection. It also advises starting technical questions by asking clarifying questions and stating your assumptions, and says it does not expect you to know everything.
The full guide, with the sources, is the Microsoft software engineer interview process.
What Devana practices for Microsoft
Devana's Microsoft set has 58 questions, 27 of them rated hard. The topics that come up most are Scalability, Systems Design, Concurrency and Security. They are Devana's own questions, written to reflect what Microsoft and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. Start any of these as a mock interview:
| Round type | Questions | Examples (start a mock interview) |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 24 | |
| System design | 12 | |
| Technical deep dives | 12 | |
| Behavioral | 10 |
Counted from Devana's question bank. Technical deep dives run as a system design round. Devana is not affiliated with Microsoft.
How to practice for Microsoft
- Clarify before you code. Ask about inputs, limits and edge cases, and say your assumptions out loud. Devana's coding rubric scores approach planning before a line is written.
- End every story with the Reflection. What you learned and what you now do differently. The Microsoft behavioral set asks about something you learned from a failure and changing your mind after feedback.
- Practice product-shaped problems. Our Microsoft questions come from its products: undo and redo for a document editor, recalculating a spreadsheet after a cell changes, Teams chat, OneDrive sync and a multi-tenant Azure service.
- Expect enterprise constraints. The technical deep dives include serving customers who never upgrade and diagnosing a memory leak in production.
How a Microsoft mock interview runs on Devana
Pick a question from the Microsoft set and you talk it through with Josh, Devana's AI interviewer, for up to 30 minutes on a paid plan or 20 on the Free plan. In a coding question your code runs in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java or C++; a design question has a whiteboard the interviewer reads; a behavioral question gets follow-ups about what you personally did. Each session ends with a score out of 100 on that round's rubric and a list of what raised and lowered it. For a full-length round with two problems, start a standard mock interview from Practice instead: up to 60 minutes on a paid plan, though you cannot choose the company. The mock interviews by round page shows each round type.
Guides to study first
- Stack, for undo and redo
- Graphs, for dependency questions such as spreadsheet recalculation
- Two pointers, for in-place string questions
- Message queues and async work, for chat and sync designs
- Failure and mistakes, for learning-from-failure stories
- The STAR method, the base for STAR(R)
Devana is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Microsoft. The questions are Devana's own and are not leaked or confirmed Microsoft interview questions.
Frequently asked questions
Are Devana's Microsoft questions real Microsoft interview questions?
No. Devana's 58 Microsoft questions are its own, written to reflect what Microsoft and its candidates have said publicly about its interviews. They are not leaked or confirmed Microsoft questions, and Devana is not affiliated with Microsoft.
Can I do a Microsoft mock interview for free?
Yes. Company question sets are on Devana's Free plan, which includes 3 mock interviews a month of up to 20 minutes each, on any of the 58 Microsoft questions. On the Sprint Pass or Pro, a single question runs up to 30 minutes.
How do I show growth mindset in a Microsoft interview?
Microsoft lists growth mindset among the qualities it looks for and recommends STAR(R) answers: Situation, Task, Action, Result and Reflection. The Reflection, what you learned and what you would do differently, is where it shows. Microsoft also says it does not expect you to know everything, so say what you know and how you would find out.