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 in Oct 2014
Interview
Emailed about on-campus interview following the career fair at my school. Interview was 30 minutes long, but mine started a little late. Asked about my previous internship experience, and then focused on the technical question for the majority of the interview. Finished up by allowing me to ask a few questions about his position at Microsoft.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a bounded bifocii data structure using an array and efficient enqueue and dequeue algorithms
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I met a recruiter at a campus career fair. The recruiter contacted me within two weeks to set up an on campus interview. The email containing the interview sign up also contained a list of books and websites to help prepare for the interview. The interview itself was a half hour long. The interviewer asked me to talk a little bit about my classes and projects, which I did for seven minutes. The rest of the time was spent in working out a technical problem. I first discussed my ideas with the interviewer, who then told me what he liked and did not like and then asked me to write down some code. I heard back from the recruiter a week later informing me that I had made it to the next round, which has not taken place yet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical question was related to data structures and sorting.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
The process took around a month. I was referenced by a friend and had a screening interview on campus. It was straightforward. I next got invited to a on-site interview. I was interviewed by four interviewers there. all questions were straightforward. Linked lists and string manipulation. Although I thought that the interview went well, as I have answered all questions correctly and also had very nice conversations with the interviewers. I did not get an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
numbers represented as linked lists. write afunction that takes 2 numbers as ll and returns the sum of them, as a linked list. e.g function(1->2->3, 4->5) => 1->6->8