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 submitted a resume while at the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference. A recruiter emailed me shortly after, followed by a brief, fairly straightforward phone interview. This was followed by an invitation to fly out to Redmond for a day of in-person interviews. (Note to other applicants: that particular email was misclassified as spam by my email provider! The words “Microsoft,” “job,” and all of the all-caps text related to flight details was enough to set off the spam filter.) The day of interviews was long, but surprisingly fun. I was interviewed by members from a few different teams, so the day didn’t drag – there was always something new to talk about.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given two nodes in a directed graph represented by singly linked nodes, provide an algorithm for finding the nearest common ancestor. In fact, provide as many different algorithms as you can, giving different trade-offs between time and space requirements (in big-O notation).
Was asked a series of behavioral questions by a first interviewer followed by another interview with another with a question about designing a tic tac toe game. Explained what type of data structure should be used and the methodology in solving it, while comparing the performance of the solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us more about yourself and your interest in joining Microsoft.