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 (Columbus, OH) in Feb 2018
Interview
It was an on-campus interview. The recruiter asked me to talk about everything on my resume, including the projects I've done. And the internship experience. Since I used to intern at IBM, Microsoft was very interested in the experience in IBM. And at the end, he asked a super easy programming question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to check if a string is a palindrome or not
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Nueva Delhi) in Jan 2018
Interview
We give the comprehension questions at the end of the lesson to elicit answers from the students. ... We generally ask the students to write their answers in 30 words, 60 words or 80 words. ... Through this activity, the child learns to change an answer of 30 words into an answer of 60
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2018
Interview
My friend got an email from a recruiter regarding a hiring event. He forwarded my contact to the recruiter and thats how the process started. First was the online assessment that had 2 easy coding and 1 debugging. After that onsite. 4 interviews, 45 mins each.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data structures, Java interview questions, Processes & threads, deadlocks & sysncs.
Every coding question started of with basics and as you complete it the interviewers usually change the problem a little and ask what would you change from your solution.
Stack using queues.
Generate BST given a double linked list.
Largest sum of substring from an array of int and the index where it starts from.
Valid anangram.
Most profit, partitioning the rod problem.
Design an elevator.