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 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Cairo, ) in May 2019
Interview
There were a 90 minuets online test, that consists of 2 problem solving questions and 4 MCQ questions.
After that, I had 2 on-site interviews.
The first interviewer failed to break the ice, and seemed to be inexperienced enough, she asked a classical problem solving question, but stayed silent through the whole problem, and hardly confirmed the solution when I finished. After that, she asked a lot of machine learning related questions.
The second interviewer was very nice, helpful, and friendly. He asked 2 very good, fairly-hard problem solving questions.
Given a binary tree, calculate all the frequencies of the sub-trees sums. The sum of a sub-tree is the sum of its left sub-tree, its right sub-tree, and its own value
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2015
Interview
It was college hiring.. smooth and quick. Got interviewed by 4 people and had 1 tech screen.
The interviewers were great and made me comfortable. It was a 2 day campus hiring process.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2018
Interview
The interview was on - campus. It was quite a good experience , questions were mainly from data structures and algorithms, eg: Binary trees, Binary Search Trees, Linked lists, arrays, strings, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was technical inteview round, where we were asked to code in pen-paper.