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.
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Orangeburg, SC)
Interview
I applied on the website, submitted the resume. College recruiter came to college for screening, took the onsite interview and then got chance for an additional interview as phone interview after two weeks. It was a one-hour phone interview. They wanted to know my background, which is my preferable language, any project I have done recently, what is the biggest challenges I have faced so far. How do I manage conflict with team members?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Use beam balance twice only to determine the heaviest marble in all, which marble is heaviest out of 9 identical marble, which has the same size, but among them, one is the heaviest one.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
I applied through my college career fair. I was flown out to the Redmond headquarters for a full day of interviews. After we got a campus tour. Everyone was really helpful and the experience was great.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a connected graph, create a function that returns true if the graph is bipartite.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Aug 2016
Interview
The team was very helpful at Microsoft, and they were very professional throughout the whole process.
The process was a bit tiring, but that should be expected when interviewing with a big company. It was a total of 4 interviews over the course of 4 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All of the questions were strictly algorithms/problem solving questions