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. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2013
Interview
First Round of Interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell us about yourself and your work experience.
2. What was the longest and the most complicated code you have ever written.
3. If there are 3 baskets, having contents: Apples, Oranges and Apples + Oranges. All the baskets are mislabelled and not transparent. How many minimum baskets do you need to open to know the contents of all.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I applied through campus services and got an on-campus interview I went in expecting a technical interview for a software developer internship, ended up discussing user experience because I listed it as an interest. Therefore I wasn't prepared. Interviewer was standoffish and kept fishing for words and terms that weren't really necessary.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2013
Interview
Send my resume to a manager, got a one hour phone interview with him and he wanted to see me onsite. At that point he transmitted to a recruiter to schedule the trip.
Had 3 interview, lunch, and two more. Questions ranging from linked-list to graph. Overall questions were simple but you have to take great care about the coding on the whiteboard, I was not prepared to.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was a compiler team, I had to design an alias analysis.