Developer 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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2 Coding Screens and a Behavioral for the interview process. The coding questions were geared toward my experience on my resume and all interviewers asked questions about my projects and experience
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement an LRU cache and explain design decisions
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Dec 2023
Interview
codility online assessment, two questions in 80 minutes, the first is easy and the second is medium.
I got an email that said I have seven days to do the assessment and i could use my own ide during the assessment and copy and paste my code to codility
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the largest palindrome possible in an array of numbers 0-9
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Oct 2023
Interview
Some basic introduction after which a single Data Structures and Algorithms round where engineer is supposed to code on codility and share screen with interviewer while solving a question from scratch.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The problem of transforming one string into another with the minimum number of steps is known as the "edit distance" problem. The most common way to measure the edit distance between two strings is to consider three basic operations: insertion, deletion, and substitution.