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 through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Got phone call from HR, then another person arranged a skype interview. The first time interviewer was busy, so canceled. Then arranged another one. The phone interview was 1 hour. interviewer self introduction, then talked about myself in cv
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Varsovia, Mazovia)
Interview
A recruiter contacted me in august through Linkedin. I give him my CV, and around October I mantained a phone interview with a different recrutiter. This phone interview was focused on reviewing my CV, past projects, and questions about common programming issues such as recursivity.
After this interview, I went to the last interview in Warsaw (Poland). In there, I mantained 5 different interviews with SW Engineers from Redmond during the morning. Each interviewer presents you with a programming problem (Data structures, recursivity, etc.) to be solved in a white board for 45min-1h
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a number N, get the next bigger number on a binary tree
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter. Went on a hiring event. The interviewers insisted on using Java for coding and I was told that those who can't code in C++ or Java are weak software engineers.