Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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There are three rounds of interviews including background introduction of yourself, coding for problem solving, and system design or architecture design.
The first interviewer will be your peer.
The second interviewer will be some senior.
The last interviewer will be leader.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you design a monitor system for online service?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Took an online assesment and got an hr interview afterwards, did not pass the hr interview. online coding assesment was rather easy and was repetetive from what my friends got for the same interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given a 0-indexed integer array stones sorted in strictly increasing order representing the positions of stones in a river.
A frog, initially on the first stone, wants to travel to the last stone and then return to the first stone. However, it can jump to any stone at most once.
The length of a jump is the absolute difference between the position of the stone the frog is currently on and the position of the stone to which the frog jumps.
More formally, if the frog is at stones[i] and is jumping to stones[j], the length of the jump is |stones[i] - stones[j]|.
The cost of a path is the maximum length of a jump among all jumps in the path.
Return the minimum cost of a path for the frog.
Very thorough, challenging multi-round technical interview over the course of a day. Essential knowledge of fundamental algorithms, data structures, and other technical components. At the end no feedback was given as to how we performed, but no exploding offer was presented
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical programming question, please implement a string reversal algorithm