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 college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2015
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I was contacted by a recruiter and was invited to a one on one interview. The interview took place at my university. The interviewer asked me about my projects since I have quite of few of them then he went on to ask me few basic data structures and algorithms questions as a warm up, before asking me two coding questions about algorithms.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in May 2016
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Avoid to interview with Microsoft if you have more than 5 years experiences. I had been through their hiring event and got an offer but disappointed with lower level title and salary. Try to negotiate but HR said they have lots of engineers to eager to join Microsoft so do not waste of their tme.
Microsoft, if you want to hire experienced one, please respect their career too. Sorry but there are lots of good company to value their employees!
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
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Lots of candidates, lots of rounds. The managers did a good job of shepherding around the candidates but it was easy to feel lost in a room of 100 people. In addition, it was frustrating that not a lot of the people who you talk to say anything more about their job than "I work on the Bing team" and general stuff like that.