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'm a final year university student and I submitted my resume for Software Engineer I. I had an an on-campus interview in October 2018, followed by on-site interview in January 2018 at Redmond.
I interviewed with 4 people for 45 minutes each and the first three interviews were technical and behavioral questions. The last one was an as necessary interview where the manager tried to convince me to join Microsoft.
Interview questions were average difficulty for 4th year computing science major, but it's important to think through them and ask questions before writing the code. Behavioral questions were standard such as describing strengths and weaknesses, conflict with colleague, etc.
They put me in a nice hotel with a good rental car. Flight, meals, and parking was all paid for or reimbursed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Convert a string to a number. For example, convert "10.53" to a float with value of 10.53.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
One online coding challenge with 3 relatively simple questions (mainly debugging and testing your knowledge with the language).
Then direct onsite round. 4 rounds (45 min each).
Each 5-10 chit chat, and a technical question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. A simple backtracking problem, parse a given string for a specific type of substrings.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2017
Interview
Interviewed during university career fair for the first round. Then was called on-site for the technical round which involved four rounds on the same day. All the interviewers were really very nice and wanted to help you during the entire process.