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. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA)
Interview
Interviewed with Bing at Bellevue, WA. One of the interviewer showed no interest to me. He was playing cell phone all the time without looking at me or the whiteboard.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jan 2018
Interview
I applied online on Microsoft's job site by sending my CV in. A recruiter called me a few weeks later to say they were interested in interviewing me. They gave me a takeaway code challenge and scheduled time to go over it on the phone with a senior engineer on the team. Then after the phone interview a series of onsite technical interviews involving whiteboard coding, general problem solving and code observation skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Would prefer not to disclose exact questions, but topics involved general programming interviews and problem solving with a choice of whiteboard or laptop.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Irvine, CA) in Oct 2017
Interview
It was an on-campus interview, the interviewer asked me about my projects and then asked me about how would I scale it. I was looking for a frontend position, so the question wasn't well suited for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Display all the lower-upper case combinations of a string. Eg for 'ab' it would be 'ab', 'Ab', 'aB', 'AB'.