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. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2019
Interview
I applied online in 2017 in Berlin. I was requested to make an account, to attach a resume an to answer to a lot of questions. This whole step took something like 3 hours. After applying all I got was radio silence. I have connected with a recruiter on LinkedIn and asked her if she could help me. Radio silence.
Two year later a recruiter from Poland contacted me pretending that I spoke to here a while back. It was a false statement but I chose to see what she wants. She had an open position in Prague. I had a phone interview with here and she failed to answer my questions.
I got a offline coding test. I was in a business trip, and I could not complete it within a week. No deadline was specified initially , tough later that week I started to get notifications that I had 3 days left to finish the code.
This whole thing seemed to me a lack of respect for me, so I spammed them.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Initial onsite interview then four back-to-back interviews set on another day - all 1:1 with a higher up manager. Each interview was 45 minutes and was fairly easy (easy-med Leetcode questions).
After applying online, contacted by recruiter for phone screen, followed by online coding test.
This was for the job fair in july month. Recruiter didnt give me feedback for the online coding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
3 questions 1) C++ debugging question 2) binary search with minor modification 3) algo for generating 16 bit zip based on intersection of street and avenue