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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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Phone call straight to onsite. For phone call it just went over resume and asked me a couple technical questions - thread vs. process, describe recursion to 5 year old. Recruiter was not experienced so not sure how he judged me. On site was around 40 other people, all split into groups of four. In our group of four we had four interviewers who did 1 on 1 with us. Three technical and one behavioral. All super nice. Other than your skills they wanted to see your attitude, willingness to learn, how you accept criticism, and excitement to programming. All of them went through resume and asked questions on them. Also be prepared to know OOP principles.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
two-sum: return indices of two numbers in an array that add up to n
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Applied through the career fair at my college by submitting my resume. My interviewer was very friendly. I got very conventional questions. It was a really nice and helpful experience
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Dec 2018
Interview
very pleasant, called me to sent an interview.
were very nice
there were two interviews, first asked me OOP question, then a simple array rotation question.
the con is that you need to register to there website to send an application
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
rotate an array
from:
1|3|4|6|8
rotate by 2:
6|8|1|3|4