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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nice but very very long, the intereviewer was nice to me and and asked me clear questions. initial phonecall was alright and straightforward. there were some questions which were hard to answer during the design interview, but i explained my thought process
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
1 online assessment with 3 coding questions 3 Tech round 1 hiring manager round
OA consisted of String arrays questions,
Tech rounds were based on trees, Oops concept and graph
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (California, MD) in Jun 2021
Interview
Normal process as you would think, first an interview with HR of around 30 minutes, then a codility OA with 3 exercises which were completed without issues. After this, I was moved to the 3 rounds of interviews and here is where everything went wrong for me. I got super nervous on the interviews and as expected, I was rejected. To be fair, the questions were not that hard now that I think of it, it's just that I was not prepared s I should have been.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Flatten a tree in levels, convert from an integer to the excel column and finally given a linked list, return the integer value that the nodes represent