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 an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Jun 2015
Interview
The first interview in microsoft. It was a cool but difficult Interview. The interviewer asked me to tell him about some project I completed in university. He have also asked basic questions such as "what is polymorphism?", "what is heritance?", and so on.
Then the interview actually started. He asked me about binary tree serialization, including code writing. He left me a couple of minutes alone in room and then checked my code with me. He also asked me to sketch on the board what I did. Then asked me one more little question about "SetAll" in O(1), It was an easy (and tricky) question but didn't know the solution, so he tried to help me but I failed. After 90 minutes the interview was ended.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Serialization/Deserialization of a Binary Tree,
Data structure to set all values in O(1)
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Pasadena, CA) in Sep 2011
Interview
On campus interview resulting from an on campus career fair. Met with a recruiter one on one. After talking a bit about my background, the recruiter asked relatively simple coding and algorithm questions as well as PM related questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program to simulate the writing of a ransom note given a magazine from which letters can be extracted.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lund, Skåne) in Oct 2012
Interview
It does not apply to me as I moved to Microsoft during Nokia acquisition. However, during Nokia times interview had two parts. First over a phone convercation regarding my CV and some technical questions. Then I got an invitation and flight tickets to Sweden (I stayed abroad back then) for a short chat and meeting with my future team members.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Something about photography... don't remember that well (it was 3 years ago).