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. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
The recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn and scheduled to set up an interview at a later date. The interview was telephonic with the recruiter which lasted half an hour. They asked everything that was on my resume and some behavioral questions as well. The interview was rushed through and was completed within 30 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you go back and change about your project?
What is your biggest accomplishment till date?
What is the difference between between C++ and Python?
9 Balls Puzzle.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2014
Interview
Flown up to MS office in Seattle in a hotel for 3 days. The experience itself was nice but the method of interviewing wasn't that great. The interviewers are from specific teams so getting hired is a crapshoot as the team may be hiring 1 or 8 people and it totally depends. Also there is no committee or discussion so it is dependent on whether the specific interviewer liked you.
First rounded consisted of about 50 questions on aptitude which we were supposed to solve in 45 minutes.This was followed by technical round,which had questions on DS,OS,DBMS,C++,C.Then came the technical interview followed by the H.R round.The questions in the technical round were easy as well.But they asked in depth about the resume.They mostly checked us on our basics of DBMS and DS.
Although I could not make it to the H.R round,but those who made it said it lasted for about 15 minutes and it was a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the questions were fairly easy as it was an on-campus hiring process,the cutoff was high though.