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 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
I had a short telephone interview setup. The interview was a technical interview and my interests and passions. Once I cleared that, I had a full day interview in Microsoft main campus. There were a total of 5 interviews including the final one with the hiring manager. The interviews were technical questions focusing on programming questions. The questions were related to data structures and algorithms and not really programming language specific. There were testing questions at the end of interview too.
It was 30 min Skype interview, only HR questions and one puzzle. The interviewer was in a hurry and kept reminding me of the time remaining. She asked me to explain any one of my recent projects and a question on conflict resolution while working in groups.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Two languages I am most comfortable with, and how would I explain them to a child.
Puzzle: Given 3 buckets all of which are wrongly labelled- one has only oranges, one has only apples and the third has both oranges and apples. You have just one chance to pick a fruit from any of the buckets and have to correctly identify which bucket is which.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Providence, RI) in Mar 2015
Interview
I applied on campus career fair. The interviewer first asked about my resume and then comes a coding problem. I expressed my ideas and wrote code on the whiteboard. The problem was not too hard. I first of all did not think of a good way to solve it then the interviewer gave me a hint.
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