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. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I traveled to Seattle for on-campus interview. I gave fours rounds of interviews but couple of my friends gave three round of interviews as well. So, if you are lucky you can get it done in three interviews too. Two of interviews were technical and other two were behavioral/product design interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you build xyz project? "one of the projects from my resume"
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
Microsoft came for campus recruitment. First, they took an online coding round on CoCubes platform (very bad platform). It consists of 3 fairly average coding questions. The interview process was eliminative in nature. They were planning to take max 3-4 rounds for each candidate. There was a huge emphasis on system design and pen-paper coding.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Write a code to transfer money from an account to another account. What changes will you make to the code if there was a huge volume of transactions to a particular account.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nueva Delhi) in Oct 2018
Interview
There was 1 online round followed by a Group Fly(written test), 2 Technical face to face rounds and 1 HR round. Each technical round took about 1-1.5 hours and the HR round took about 15 minutes. Data structures based questions were not asked at all except the online round and Groupfly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions related to networking and OOPs were asked. Some system designs questions were also asked.