Software 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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Mar 2019
Interview
Round 1: online coding round (3 Qns)
Round 2: pen paper coding round (main thing is they see your approach and you need to write only the required function and their helpers)
then further 3 rounds were technical interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1:- 3 coding questions covering queues , trees and other simple data structures
Round 2:-
1) Print the boundary nodes in a tree in anticlockwise manner
2) Expansion of a string
Technical interview:-
Round 1:- Most things were asked from my resume. Then one coding question to "find the smallest non negative number which is not present in the array(unsorted) "
Round 2:- He asked tell me about yourself. Then asked to write code to add two polynomials.
Next round was HR round....sadly i was not selected for HR.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Aug 2019
Interview
I made it to the second stage of the recruitment process. The first was a technical interview with a senior developer, and the second stage was a technical interview with the team lead.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
(First Interview) Given a string, print all the permutations of the string
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nueva Delhi) in Aug 2019
Interview
It was good. I was asked some basic data structures algorithms and about my Projects.
They were very much interested in my Projects and wanted to know about my Part in it.
At last I was asked if I had any questions and what was I expecting from this job. Overall it was a very good interview round