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 an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
There are 5 rounds of interview, each one including has a coding question. The fourth interview also includes some fundamental question about computer science. After the second interview, there was a lunch interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. two sum 2. LCA 3. array partition 4. parentheses pairing 5. longest branch in a tree
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2017
Interview
A recruiter contacted through LinkedIn for a possibility of interview, and accepted it. About 3 weeks later, received a phone interview availability request form, and did the phone interview a week later.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2017
Interview
MS recruiter contacted me if i am interested in opportunities at Microsoft. Gave Online Test. There is a time limit of 1hr and couldn't quite complete the test. The questions are hard and lack clarity.