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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2017
Interview
it was campus interview and basically the recruiters came to the campus to select resumes, and give a campus interview. The interview was fast and never hear back from 2ed round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
technical question and a little bit behavioral question
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Microsoft flew me up to Redmond, WA and paid for all expenses and lodging. Interviewing took place in one day with 4 back to back technical interviews. Overall a very positive experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Each interview had a technical question or two. Focused primarily on data structures and algorithms.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I was referred by a friend of mine. They took a very long time to get back to me and finally scheduled a phone interview. Unlike most phone interviews where there is a coderpad of some sort that I am coding on, he simply wanted me to describe how something would work to him which was difficult as I had a hard time understanding the interviewer.
After struggling to understand what he was looking for and attempting an explanation he rudely interrupted me. He then said "Normally I would ask more questions but I think I have everything I need. Maybe sometime when you understand these thing you can work for Microsoft." And that was it.
Overall the interviewer was extremely rude, hard to understand, and very pretentious.