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 at Microsoft and I received a response quickly. I did the phone interview, the discussion was really nice, they were more interested about me and my projects. In the following interview they will ask more technical questions. The data structures ones were more difficult.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Went through a recruiter screen, technical phone screen and full day on site.
I was interested in working with Microsoft till the on site where many of the interviewer did not want to be there. Made me feel really disrespected and I was loathing every second of it. Hiring manager was slightly better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Effects of multiple threads calling the same instance of a class.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn. Got an online test. Test consist of 3 questions to be solved in 1 hour. No test cases and IDE were provided.
I cleared the online test and was called for onsite interview. It was an hiring event. I had four rounds of interview there.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
clone the graph.
circular linked list.
one medium difficulty question on dynamic programming