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 round on cocubes consisting of three questions. The questions were easy and selection was purely based on how many test cases you passed. The cocubes platform is a little out dated though.
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Question 1
one question was linked list. where you had to rearrange such that you get first node followed by last followed by second and second last and so on.
one was simple type cast implementation question.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
Very standard tech interview overall. Phone screen with a technical question that requires coding on a shared editor. Onsite consists of 5 rounds while first 4 are with managers and senior engineers of the org and last round with the head of the org. Each round can either be coding or design, coding problems are mostly related to basic data structure / algorithm understanding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something related to data structures such as list or tree
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2018
Interview
Sharp questions but nice interviewers. Average difficulty at the computer science problems and system design. Good attitude from the staff side. The interviews are not impossible to pass, just basic preparation is required.