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 through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Apr 2025
Interview
basically, it was pretty chill interview, it was technical interview and we started with talking about c#, and then we went to the algorithms part and they gave me 2 problems 1 easy and 1 medium leetcode problem. Pretty chill to be honest
Received oa, next week I was scheduled three rounds of interviews. This was for a new grad role. So the rounds were hld+behavioural, lc+ behavioural for the other two.
The questions were medium level on leetcode, hld was a shocker.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2025
Interview
First was an online assessment. 2 problems were around leetcode medium and one leetcode easy. Second round was a live interview where it was a mixture of system design and 1 hard level dsa
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Easy DSA: Merge two sorted arrays
2. Difficults: Trees & Matrix