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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Some difficult programming questions. Not easy to answer but people are friendly. Good company culture and nice environment. It went well and really recommend to have an interview experience with the company.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bucarest, ) in Nov 2024
Interview
First, I had to solve 2 problems in an online assignment. The difficulty was somewhere between average and hard. The problems were about strings, you had tests to check the solution.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv)
Interview
They interviewd by phone, and then called me to their offices. There was one interviewer who greated me at the front desk, and took me upstairs for the interview. He told me abour the positon, asked me to tell about myself, and moved on to the technical part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They mainly asked me about the shortest path in a matrix that has "holes"(i.e, unallowed locations), and how to implement in whatever language I wanted, and asked questions around the implementation.