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 in-person. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Mar 2018
Interview
An hour-long phone call followed by an hour-and-a-half interview.
The interviewer was very nice both on the phone and in the interview itself.
The questions were not too difficult, but they did require thinking and thinking about the most effective solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me to tell about myself and my experience.
Then ask technical questions in computer science - create a dictionary and extract words that appear the most.
Search for an ancestor in a binary tree.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Phone then superday interview. Pretty standard, 5 interviews when we were onsite. They had lunch too but we were not evaluated on that and not paired with anyone for that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly technical whiteboard questions. One involved knowing bitmap solutions to figure out storing information.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Oslo) in Apr 2018
Interview
After phone screening I got an invitation to onsite interview. But they have rejected it with "expensive flight tickets" explanation. I had a skype call for second interview. First Engineer's internet connection was poor and I did not really could hear him. Second interviewer was much warmer and friendly. I have solved medium type of tasks similar as in hackerrank. But got rejection with words "We would like to proceed visa for you, please try to apply us within 6 months".