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 through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2016
Interview
Firstly I got an email from Microsoft and talked with a staff on skype. Secondly, I had a technical interview too on skype. Thirdly I went to microsoft office in another country and had a big interview which was done by 4 people. All of them is controlled by many people and all of them are very friendly and professional.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
question on skype:
think that there is a string like this : axxxxaxbxxb
write a function that will find the closest space between a and b. according to above string, the closest space is 1. (...axb..)
during my big interview, I had 4 different interview with four difderent people. they were very polite and helpfull so you feel relaxed during the interview. they asked some questions which should be done using linkedlist, quicksort. besides one of them asked about how I can test my code and what kind of things should be important for testing.. they also asked for about what is race condition, scaliability of project, testing techniques, agile methodologies..
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Zúrich) in Oct 2016
Interview
After applying online I was invited for a 30 Minutes interview with technical focus. The interviewer first asked some questions and then directly came to the technical challenge. I first needed to come up with an algorithm on paper and then implement it using any language I like. The interviewer was supportive and kind.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY)
Interview
On-campus interview, mostly behavioral with one interview question. Good interview but Microsoft definitely doesn't keep the difficulty consistent with their algorithm questions. I got a hard question while my friend got "reverse a string."
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string with plus, minus, parenthesis, numbers, evaluate the expression.