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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It was thorough and mostly coding questions. Plus 1 system design question. All of the interviews were 1 hour long with the final interview being behavioral. The core concepts involved .net and azure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a national movie theater website?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bucarest, )
Interview
HR Round only, usual questions. It went well, but I did also get some technical questions which I was not expecting. Wanted to schedule the technical interview 3 weeks ahead so I did not move forward.
passed the codility test and got an email saying that. However, I was never invited for a following interview. The test itself was average level of leetcode and was constructed from 2 questions.