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 a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublín, Dublín) in Dec 2023
Interview
The recruiter reached out on Linked In. Initial 30min call, followed by Codility technical test ( leetcode medium 1-2 questions +- ) +- 2hr
Passed tests with 100% only to be ghosted by the interviewer. Tried to reach out a few weeks later and no response.
Waste of time
4 rounds of interviews each had two coding questions if time permits, will ask about system design if there are time left. Overall first coding question is easy, but then it can escalate quickly to a medium/hard level depends on your performance.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What problem did you recently solve in your programing or work experience
The interview process was pretty nice and respectful. The current interview was the first technical interview. There was a phone call of about 20 minutes with HR representative before, after a few days she scheduled the first technical interview for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given an array, return the smallest natural number that is not in the array