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 was for their internship program. Compared to my friends who also went through the process, mine was completely different. They had a zoom with other interviewees while mine was direct 2 technical interviews
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serialize and deserialize a binary tree, create a file system and how would you determine how to find the file path
Standard Interview process. Asked an algorithm question and gave me thrity minutes. Question was to find position of robot after given a set of instructions for movement. Before the algorithm question they asked standard cultural questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublín, Dublín) in Jun 2022
Interview
I applied online, highlighting my software engineering experience. After a recruiter call, I completed a technical phone screen focusing on algorithms and coding. Later, I had virtual interviews covering system design, coding, and behavioral questions. Feedback followed by committee review.
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Question 1
in the tech phase questions and talk about algorithms and data structures