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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Microsoft came to our campus for it. Had a initial online technical test . Test had three questions. one on tree , one on linked list and one on an array. There were different sets of tests.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
intersection of two sorted linked lists. You cannot create a new linked list. Using recursion only.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Kharagpur, West Bengal) in Aug 2017
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There were two technical interview round .They basically focus upon problem solving skills of candidate and how a candidate approach to a new problem.If you take time in solving any problem then let them know your approach they give some hint which are very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algo to find how many minimum no. of characters should be added to a word at its beginning to make it palindrome.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nueva Delhi) in Aug 2016
Interview
Clumsy hiring process,
Completely random,
Inclined towards one specific gender,
Random questions with unequal difficulty level in online test. Ratio of shortlisted to finally hired candidates is very poor.
Interviewers are not cooperative enough.