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 college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2014
Interview
Applied through University recruiting, there was a first technical question to write on paper and after that you got a call if you pass to the first round of interviews.
The first round was with one employee from Redmond, first minutes was a little talk and introduction, after that a question related to Binary Trees, i managed to answer it correctly, after that he gave me another question related to the original problem and i made it good, then it was a little talk and some feedback from the interview which i think was a nice detail from the interviewer.
After a few weeks I got an email from the recruiter, he told me that my interviewer recommended for the next round so a final round of interviews was scheduled next month.
Honestly i studied very little, i reviewed some algorithms but the final round was totally different, there was three back to back interviews, all in the same format that the previous round, i think i made it good on the first two, however, the last one i didn't like the interviewer too much, he didn't speak too much and was always paying attention to his computer rather than the interview, after a week I recieved a rejection email.
As a tip, read Program Interviews Exposed and Cracking the Interview code, also review algorithms and data structures, TALK ALOUD on the interview! this is very important!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublín, Dublín)
Interview
There was a phone interview followed by a full day technical and later management meeting. The phone interview was just a quick chat about my previous experience. The day long interview was with two software developers. They had a list of technical questions. Silly stuff really, difference between a struct and a class. Some object orientated questions. MSSQL database design schemas and the like. The two guys were pleasant. The managerial interview went well up to the point where he asked why I had listed Linux on my CV when I was applying to Microsoft. He seemed to be implying that I was a radically anti-Microsoft. It was unpleasant.
very long they have several stages such as your speaking text maths understanding and then couple of interviews and then the final assesment interview
after none of these interviews are you guranteed a place though
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