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 a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jun 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter for Microsoft. They setup a phone interview for a week away. We discussed my resume, and then they asked me some OO and Systems questions. After the phone interview they said they would let me know in a week or so about a follow up interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Praga) in Feb 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn to apply for a job at Microsoft in Prague. First I had a phone interview with her, then a technical interview via Skype (I got one task), and after I was invited for onsite interviews, where I had three separate interviews, each interviewer again gave me a task to implement an algorithm, and asked me some standard HR questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You are given two lists (each element is an integer that is less than 10), and you are asked to create a third list that represents a sum of these two. For example,
list1: 1 -> 2 -> 3
list2: 7 -> 7
123 + 77 = 200 ----> list3: 2 -> 0 -> 0
You are given a list of n elements (integers with values between 0 and 99 that can appear more than once in the list), and you should find the element that appears most often, and you are allowed to go trough the list just once
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2017
Interview
Coding based, several programming problems. Coding on the whiteboard which is not as straightforward as it may sound. There were several different interviews, all quite long, so you have to stay focused throughout the whole day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was a while ago, can't remember individual questions as there were multiple interviews.