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. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
one in person interview on campus for an hour. half algorithms other half previous experience ect. then flew out to singapore to interview with them! 5 hours of algorithms and data structures. find the median and mode of an array of numbers, implement merge step from merge sort, things i should have got straight away but didn't do to well on the day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
how to test a stapler... that was what tripped me up. maybe i should have thought about it like a software object with methods such as load(StapleBlock[] staples) which need testing. instead i thought of it like i was a person wanting to buy a cheap stapler which would staple pages together properly.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2012
Interview
Went through first round of interview. The interview asked some behavioural questions and a technical question. The session was short, lasted 30 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function that takes in a string and convert it into integer