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 online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (California, MD) in Jun 2021
Interview
Normal process as you would think, first an interview with HR of around 30 minutes, then a codility OA with 3 exercises which were completed without issues. After this, I was moved to the 3 rounds of interviews and here is where everything went wrong for me. I got super nervous on the interviews and as expected, I was rejected. To be fair, the questions were not that hard now that I think of it, it's just that I was not prepared s I should have been.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Flatten a tree in levels, convert from an integer to the excel column and finally given a linked list, return the integer value that the nodes represent
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jan 2024
Interview
It was nice interviewers were kind and helpful and questions of array, Linked list were asked and i had answered them all and it was very helpful and jovial conversation
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2024
Interview
3 back to back interviews, discussion about your prev experience, then coding interview on an ide of your choice. Then 5 mins for discussions. Questions were tagged and relatively easy. One interviewer logged from their phone with no video cam and was not attentive.