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 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Cairo, ) in Feb 2023
Interview
So Long, but I gain a lot of experience that will help me in my future Interviews.
And the attitude of the interviewers is good.
The salary was so low.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2020
Interview
I am from Europe. First contact was through Linkedin, then short phone call, then non-technical screening with online call. After that invitation for a flight to Dublin for one day-interviews. During that day I was interviewed by four different people with different questions . Answered properly three out of four questions but it wasn't enough for a transfer to the US as a software engineer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary tree, permutations, two stacks & some simple algorithm
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Feb 2024
Interview
I got by referral and the first step I had to do an online assessment where I got to do two questions in two hours, I only remember one of them but they were tough.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2d array of size 2xn that have numbers in them you have to get from [0,0] to [1,n] using the minimum path (you can go 'down' and 'left' but never 'up' so you can go 'down' only once in the path) return the minimum path as array