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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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC) in Mar 2024
Interview
phone interview -> full loop interview (4 interviews)
It was good, but some interviews seems not prepare well, and ask too general question. Coding question was okay. 2 interviews went well, but 2 of them were not enough to pass .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- LRU Cache
- DFS tree question
- System design (chat like whatsapp)
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Milán) in Jun 2024
Interview
colloquio conoscitivo parli di te e della tua esperienza pregressa se non è il primo impiego
colloquio tecnico dimostri le tue skills sugli argomenti di cui avete parlato nel colloquio conoscitivo
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
se sono disponibile a essere affiancato da qualcuno di più esperto nel primo periodo
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Ciudad Ho Chi Minh) in Dec 2025
Interview
We started off going through my resume. The interviewer has a heavy accent and a bad mic.
Then we proceeded to a technical live problem solve. I wasn't provided with an IDE so I decided to use Google Docs to avoid the auto fill from VSCode.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find Minimum Elt in Rotated Sorted Array where the elts are not distinct.