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 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2017
Interview
The interview was a half hour interview that took place at my university. I was interviewed by one of their software engineers. The interview went very quickly; they started with general questions similar to most interviews (e.g. about my experience academically, my internship experience, etc.) and proceeded to a basic technical question where I was asked to answer a coding problem on paper.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't remember the technical question word-for-word, but it was essentially mapping several strokes (values) from one's handwriting to a single word (key).
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Paso, TX) in Oct 2017
Interview
I first met the Microsoft team at my University during an info session. They were also present at a career expo my University hosts, and I was able to talk one on one with a recruiter. I was interested in hardware but after speaking with the recruiter I was convinced to go over to the dark side. I had my interview about two weeks after the initial one on one, and the interview process wasn't all too bad. I was asked a couple of behavioral questions and two technical questions. I couldn't have moved forward through the interview had it not been for the interviewer. She helped me feel extremely comfortable and also helped me throughout the entire technical portion of the interview.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2017
Interview
There was a Microsoft booth set up on campus, I was one of the last people that they spoke to and was honestly kind of surprised that they reached out considering how tired they must've been. They reached out to me after a few days via email and I reserved an on-campus interview slot via their online portal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Suppose you wanted to make a set (like a mathematical set where each item in the set is unique) for a library, how would you do it?