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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Pretty difficult, but rewarding process. I feel like there were a lot of different things we discussed during the interview, but ultimately I felt like it was a well rounded process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can't answer that. Coding and behavioral questions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Shanghái, Shanghai) in Jul 2020
Interview
The interviewer is very nice and is very senior in system design and implementation.
The interview I applied for was system group.
The whole process is made of three parts:
1. introduce yourself and your research work in school, the interviewee asked some question about my work;
2. a couple of programming problems which was covered by letecode :) The programming is on the paper not on the computer.
3. questions about understanding of computer system.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
write a code snippet to implement memcopy function.
Three rounds of technical interview which includes Data structures, OOPS, system design. Question for oops round was to design Movie ticket booking system. Ds round was about tree data structure and there was one algorithm question (targetsum)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Movie ticketing system which is scalable, reliable and available