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 online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Toronto, ON) in Jan 2024
Interview
Update:
I'm glad I finally got rejected and got to the end of this "nightmare".
You don't know who your recruiter is and they care even less who you are.
Everyone you can reach ignores you or is indifferent.
Thank you, Microsoft. Sincerely.
Bad experience, the HR and interviewer ghosted, even if they are said in the official email to be responding within a given period. They did not respond to your reach-out. The interviewer did not look at your resume before the interview. They did not truly care about candidates, they just pretended to be.
Below are the details:
Phone interview
1. Get an email about the interview, determine the interview time
2. Interview via Microsoft Teams
3. Interviewer introduces the position and project
4. Do your self-introduction
5. Go through your experiences
6. Code interview
7. Questions for the interviewer
technical OA then behavioral. It was around 1 hour for the OA then 30 minutes behavioral. was rather easy to achieve and was 2 leetcode easy problems which was very nice and satisfying to do.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One thing they asked me was how I dealt with a fallout.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2022
Interview
General HR interview for the first round of interview. Asked about previous experience and work related to the job position. Talked a bit more about the job position. Not much in depth technical questions are asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you had to resolve a conflict within your team.