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 online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2014
Interview
Applied online through the Microsoft web site. Onsite interview with techical lead and manager. Asked to put the answers to the questions on whiteboard. Follow up via phone call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Onsite interview with tech lead and manager
System design: design a parking lot
Coding: code for previous system design question
The last round of interviews consisted of four interviews, each one of them was trying to analyse a different topic as: data structures knowledge, problem solving, past experience and learnability.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Solve a problem using a language you have never used before or was not confortable with (C# in my case).
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in May 2018
Interview
phone interview and then 2 interviews in the office with a break of an hour in between.
the first one had 3 logic questions. find the nth element from the end in ll. compute "10*3-8/4"
the second asked me about finding if the nodes in tree are father and child and architecture question about whatsapp