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 an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2021
Interview
5 rounds of leetcode algorithm questions, mainly the medium level questions.
The first round was an telephone interview, 2-5 rounds are on site interview, 1h each round. One of the round was interviewed by the future direct manager.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bogotá, Cundinamarca) in May 2024
Interview
- Interview with HR
- Coding test on codility, with one easy, medium, and hard problem (BFS problem in my case).
- Last round with three interviews in the same day. One with an engineer about DSA, one with a manager about system design, and one with a senior engineer about DSA + System Design.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Cairo, ) in Jul 2024
Interview
two technical problem solving questions with two different interviewers one was about string manipulation using dynamic programming or brute force and the other one of the questions was about arrays and completing ranges
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Question 1
string manipulation using dynamic programming or brute force