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 college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2017
Interview
I turned in my resume to a recruiter on campus. A week later, I get an invitation for an on-campus interview. The interviewer was very nice. He immediately started off with a technical question and then he asked about one of my projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you find the common ancestor of two nodes in a binary search tree?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2017
Interview
Applied through the college career fair and spoke to the recruiters during one of their campus office hours. Got an on-campus interview call after 2 weeks. The interview was scheduled to be half hour long. One coding question and then chat about previous experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give an algorithm to serialize and deserialize a binary tree.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Londres, Inglaterra) in Oct 2017
Interview
The recruiter informed me a week before that I would have a 30-minutes interview for the role. The structure of the interview was 15 minutes behavioral and questions on my CV, almost 10 minutes a technical question and I also had 3-4 minutes to ask any question I had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Tell me about your experience (Questions on my CV).
2) Tell me about a time in your working experience when you dealt with a problem with a colleague and what did you do.
3) Reverse a Linked List.