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 through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jul 2018
Interview
The interview was on - campus. It was quite a good experience , questions were mainly from data structures and algorithms, eg: Binary trees, Binary Search Trees, Linked lists, arrays, strings, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was technical inteview round, where we were asked to code in pen-paper.
First interview was face-to-face and I passed, after that I got a second interview a month later in other state, where I was interviewed for 4 people. Each interview was around 1 hour, between each interview we had 15min to rest.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Austin, TX) in Mar 2017
Interview
Campus Interview, one on one with a Software Engineer at Microsoft, who asked some technical questions and then opened the conversation for questions ~30 min total. I had attended my college's engineering career fair and was then selected for an in-person interview the following few days.