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Microsoft Data Scientist interview experience

Every Microsoft Data Scientist interview written up on the site: the rounds, the questions asked, how candidates prepared and whether they got the offer.

Microsoft Data Scientist interviews at a glance

Worked out from the 3 Microsoft Data Scientist write-ups on this site.

interview write-ups
3
latest write-up
Oct 2026

What the rounds test

  • Data Structures & Algorithms5 · 56%
  • Other3 · 33%
  • System Design1 · 11%

Roles covered

Locations

Banglore (1)

Microsoft Data Scientist interview experiences1–3 of 3

Questions asked in Microsoft Data Scientist interviews

  1. 01

    Balance Chemical Equation Using SymPy

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  2. 02

    Minimum Operations to Make a String Beautiful

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  3. 03

    Find Global Maximum of a Quadratic Equation using SciPy

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  4. 04

    Average Marks per Department

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  5. 05

    Student Attendance Count per Event

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  6. 06

    Data Quality & Outliers Handling

    Other

  7. 07

    Feature Engineering for Customer Churn Prediction

    Other

  8. 08

    Metrics & Loss Functions for False Negative Sensitive Tasks

    Other

  9. 09

    System Design for Real-time Anomaly Detection

    System Design

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What does the Microsoft Data Scientist interview focus on?

Across 3 Microsoft Data Scientist interview experiences shared on Interview Experiences, the questions asked were mostly data structures & algorithms (56% of reported questions), other (33% of reported questions), system design (11% of reported questions).

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