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 months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Met them at the career fair. Called back for On-Campus Interview. Asked briefly about my resume and then given a standard data structures question. Interviewer was not very friendly. Didn't hear back for several weeks and emailed formerly very nice recruiter asking for an update. Got an unpersonalized rejection email five minutes later with no subject. Didn't seem like they would have told me anything otherwise.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
After resume shortlisting, had one on campus interview for around 30 minutes. Qualified after that ,went to Redmond for an onsite interview. Had 3 rounds. The team was Office. They looked after Office365 and Skype mainly. All rounds started with brief introduction about them followed by questions on my resume and then getting on to the coding problem.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Given a character 2D array, find an input string is present or not. (Like crossword puzzle) The string lettershad to be in a straight line.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Albany, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
30min. No self introduction... Go to coding directly. ORZ. I solved only one problem. And 5min is to aks questions. Actually I want to ask the salary, but, you know, I need to focus on the other aspect first. Then I ask some product related questions about surface book. The guy is nice and patient. Gave me quite a lot hint and assist me the thinking process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
k sorted list merging. Need to analyze the T/S complexity. Need the optimal answer.