Microsoft Senior Program Manager interview questions
Updated Nov 18, 2025
based on 125 ratings
Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
40%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
27%
Applied online
Applied online
17%
Recruiter
Recruiter
9%
Other
Other
6%
In Person
In Person
1%
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Staffing Agency
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Senior Program Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Program Manager roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 58 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 33%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
1. Cv sift
2. Interview with recruiter
3. 5x interviews with specific people relating to your role. This is known as “the loop” each person marks you twice, if you are good for the role and good for Microsoft.
4. They then review in a panel
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Question 1
Show experience of how you would work within a multifaceted team to achieve a common goal.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2024
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The process was very frustrating, the hiring team kept on rescheduling the interviews multiple times. This broke the motivation and rhythm of my preparation. The hiring manager just rushed the interview without even giving time to answer the questions instead kept on talking in between.
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Question 1
How would you collaborate, all the general behavioral questions based upon Microsoft values. How do you prioritize etc
Intensiv, 11 interviews with various people from various divisions across the world. The whole process took about 6 months and interviews were almost all remote. I had only one meeting in person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They want to understand what kind of personality you have.