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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2019
Interview
I was invited for networking event with online questionnaire. Online questionnaire had leetcode's easy to medium difficulty level questions. I cracked it and I was invited for onsite. Onsite had 4 tech rounds. 2 tech rounds were by Hiring managers and 2 tech rounds were by Tech lead and Software engineer I believe.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary tree question. Solution involved doing inorder traversal. Not exactly remembering question.
4 entrevistas onsite em Buenos Aires, o processo bem padrao. 45 min de entrevista e 15 entre as entrevistas, entrevistadores velhos. Perguntas estranhas, apenas Uma pergunta sobre DS/algo. Tinham 7 pessoas sendo entrevistadas.
First there was a phone interview, a bit technical, but not that much: "tell me about yourself", "difficulties", "how you handled them", "what is your experience". Then on sight interview, took 2 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One page question, writing a message queue system that get from one queue and write to another, and there are 2 processes handling these whole thing - Multi threaded.
1 Algorithm and 1 Data structure question