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 a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jun 2024
Interview
I had first 5-10 mins introduction (tell me about yourself)
Next 15 mins asked about projects in detail
Then asked a data structure algorithms question (medium dp problem - knapsack)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Can you make string palindrome by removing atmost k characters
Standard leetcode. Unfortunately I wasn't able to answer the question successfully due to the question being mathematical in nature. The interviewer was very pleasant, calm and accommodating. Not sure what else I can say.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
interview loop consisted of three technical interview questions. medium level leet code and systems design. each interview included behavioral and technical questions. the three interviews happened over the course of two days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a 2d matrix filled with numbers sorted in rows and columns separately, find the largest one