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 an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Herzliya) in Oct 2017
Interview
Was told about the company first, then was asked about myself. Then technical questions, mostly about DS and DB. I did pretty well managing to answer the questions, but with a bit of guidence.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you store an index for an int column in a DB.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2017
Interview
The interviewer asked questions about my resume at the beginning. Then I had to write out a solution to a technical question/problem that I worked out on a whiteboard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an NxM array of integers, set each row and column to zero that has a key value in the row/column.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
Had an on campus interview, was pretty straightforward, resume review and a coding question.
Was then invited to Redmond for final round interviews. They were 4 interviews back to back, 45 min each. They mostly started off with basic behavioral questions then to coding questions. Depending on the interviewer, there may be other coding questions or other questions related to how you would approach workplace problems.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All of the interviewers always started off with, "tell me about yourself"