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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The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2010
Interview
Interviewer asked about previous experience. Was asked technical question about sorting linked list. He was pretty nice about it. Told about working at microsoft. Next interview would be in Redmond where multiple interviews would take place where apparently each of the teams would decide based on multiple questions as to whether or not I'd make a good contribution to their team.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Tell me about your school project or previous work.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2009
Interview
it was a 1:1 on campus interview. The recruiter asked me the following question: "We have two sorted single direction linked lists. Write an efficient algorithm to merge them together and the outcome should be sorted as well. Creating a new linked list is not allowed". Then he asked whether I was graduating the following quarter to which I answered no. After two weeks received and email that said, they could not proceed with the second round of interviews and they can not tell my why!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would merge two sorted linked lists without creating a new one so that the outcome is sorted as well.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2009
Interview
I gave my resume to one of the recruiters who came to our college and they setup a phone interview with me. It took about 45-60 minutes and the interviewer asked me questions about linked lists, arrays and one brain teaser. After that i was scheduled for an on-site interview. I spoke with 2 managers and 2 developers from Remote Desktop group and i did 90 percent of the questions. However Microsoft was laying off people and they stopped a lot of positions before i went there. Remote Desktop department is not what i was going to see but i ended up seeing them. Finally 1.5 weeks later i got a letter saying that they cant offer anything