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 a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2015
Interview
I wrote an email with my CV to a recruiter in response to a call for applications at my university and the recruiter got back to me some time later. I had a phone interview about two weeks after that. The interviewer was quite nice and seemed very eager that I asked him questions at the end.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of words (a book), print out all names in there exactly once.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Kharagpur, West Bengal) in Dec 2015
Interview
I'd already done an internship with Microsoft at Hyderabad, India, so I had a shortened process when applying for a Redmond role. There was first a coding test, then a group interview, then a one-on-one interview with a Manager from Redmond. The interview lasted around 40 minutes. I was asked general questions, guided by my resume. The focus was on discussing past projects and achievements, testing problem-solving skills, and checking general culture fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a linked list with alternating triplets of alphabets and numbers, return two linked lists, one with alphabets only, other with numbers only, in original order.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (College Station, TX) in Oct 2015
Interview
Interviewer was over 20 minutes late to interview and seemed to be pushing me to finish the interview quickly. I assume this was because he didn't want to delay his lunch or had already filled his internship slots. In general interviewer was not attentive and gave me a bad taste in my mouth for Microsoft's work environment. Question was easy but I fumbled it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sort a stack of 5 numbers using only one other stack.