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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three coding interviews depends on problem solving skills to see how the interviewee receive the problem, how he tackles it, how he engages with the interviewer and of course his coding skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Cairo, ) in Nov 2023
Interview
remote interview via microsoft teams. We’ll have a quick chat about what you’re up to at the moment, but the main focus will be us doing a bit of coding together in an online coding room.
I attended the hiring event. There were 4 rounds with 3 technicals and one system design. They asked behavioral questions for the first 20min or so for each round and then the technical question. Pretty standard and straight forward process.
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Question 1
Not typical Leetcode questions, but rather something the interviewers came up themselves and directly from work. There was even graph and excel involved, very tricky, and I found myself not having enough time to do it after answering all the behavior questions they had. System design was asking to design something like google doc. Overall, I would say the bar was pretty high.