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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Normal technical interview. First was asked a few behavioral questions, particularly regarding a project I had worked on before and largely focusing on team dynamics. He asked if I knew a certain topic, I said I didn't, then he proceeded to ask me a technical problem regarding that topic.
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How to find the second to last item of a singly-linked-list
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
1. Email interview.
2. Phone interview with one senior engineer
3. 4 rounds on-site interview with 4 different engineers. Last round is with the director.
4. Get the interview result with in one week. Accept the verbal offer but the paper one take some time. And background check takes about 3 weeks.
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Questions related to your background. Some easy to mid difficulty algorithm questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2019
Interview
It’s for an event Interview. First step was online tech screening. It ranges from easy to medium difficulty problems. You might be asked to write an algorithm or find bugs and provide fixes or write possible test cases. I had three such problems. One Straight forward coding problem. One to find bugs and provide fixes. One data structure implementation(medium difficulty).
Then onsite interview with 4 rounds. Pretty straight forward white board coding questions. First round scenario based problems. Second round implementing a data structure. Third round scenario based problem. Fourth is hard difficulty problem. Leetcode is the best source for MSFT interviews. I would say expect Atleast two rounds out of leetcode but one should be able to solve it if practiced enough. I got three problems outside of leetcode. Got call from the recruiting manager the next business day and discussed the offer. Super quick turn around from them!!
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