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
Online coding round consists of three coding questions which is easy to medium level shortlisted 30-40 candidates and divided into groups of 6-7 and pen paper coding round
Group fly round
Two technical rounds
Final HR round
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Ithaca, NY) in Oct 2018
Interview
I applied through the website and after a few weeks, I received an email for an on-campus, 30-minute behavioral and technical interview. It was just one interviewer, and I'm sure that after this initial round of interviews there were more.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell me a time you worked on a project where you encountered a problem with others, and how did you resolve it?
2. Given two sorted linked lists of numbers, merge them into a sorted linked list.
You are in a group with 30 - 50 other people and you are called by name for each interview. There were four interviews at 45 minutes each. You are then taken on a small tour to their employee store and given a card to sue for lunch on site.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
4 leet code style medium questions with a 15 minute break in between. Fairly similar to the Microsoft category on leet code. One question involved creating a linked list on each level of a binary tree.