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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3 rounds,
2 30 min interviews - leetcode easy questions
final was 4 coding questions + nontechnical with team members
questions were leetcode medium
about 45 minutes for each question + nontechincal questions
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2024
Interview
I had 3 rounds of a 45-minute interview with principal software engineers. They asked appropriate questions for my level however, the 3rd guy didn't even attend the interview. The interview was to be held at 4 pm PST and because I lived in a different time zone, I waited a whole day for this guy until 7 pm CST at night. How's that for professionalism?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
With a brief personal introduction and looking at your resume and asking about your history, they went straight into coding. So expect to be coding for 40 mins.
3 round of PS (medium and easy leetcode), some system design but in high level, used dashboard to draw some diagrams though and was asked about database schema for the system design problem
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem solving leetcode style and talked about my background