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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Similar to other opinions here, my experience was a long and painful process of 6 interviews with different people from the company. After the initial call from the recruiter, you do a short leetcode style problem as screening. After that, they schedule 4 more interviews in the same week without being very clear about what these interviews will be about. I don't really understand why they act so mysterious about these interviews, but for people applying in my case all 4 interviews had 30 min of behavioral questions and then 30 minutes of either leetcode problems or system design. For this role was 3 interviews with leetcode problems and 1 of system design.
Once you finish all this process all you get is silence. Weeks go on and zero answer even if you contact the recruiters directly. I understand that I did not get the job, but after having dedicated so much time and effort, having interviews at 7 PM on a Friday to accommodate for US time zone, the least they could do is to let you know the outcome.
I read about this behavior on other glassdoor comments and I could not believe it until I experimented myself. It seems like, you either get an offer or you get silence. I think they should review this approach as it as it feels disrespectful to candidates investing so much in the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give an example of a very challenging project you did in the past, or confrontational situation with coworkers and how you handle that.
The interview process was rigorous involving 5 rounds with 3 dsa rounds and 2 managerial rounds. prepare yourself with all dsa concepts. Especially DP,Graph,Arrays. All the questions were of medium difficulty. Some questions were hard level also.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA based question including competetive programming.
First a coding screen where you have to do 3 leetcode style questions. Then a 3 hour interview on Teams where you do 3 live coding questions. The interview is split in 3 with a 10 minute break between each part. They ask one background question before moving into the live coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when working in a group you resolved a conflict.