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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Three rounds, remote, 45 mins each with 15 mins break. All three rounds was with the US team. Consists of behavioural questions and technical ones. Technical questions includes a graph question, a api design question and a DNS server design question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you design an API call to log the user input (string) and another to retrieve all the same input in the last five minutes.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2024
Interview
Home test and then 3 remote interviews of
~1 hour each. Everyone were very pleaseant, had good interview experience. Interviews had many small technical questions but also 2 technical coding questions, and a lot of behaviour questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Test into 4 rounds of interview. The overall experience was good, the questions are okay and criteria is okay. The questions are mostly leet code style questions with some twists.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral question about how I would handle some situations