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. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tucson, AZ) in Sep 2017
Interview
I was contacted via email and met for an interview on campus. I didn't make it past the first interview so I can't say much. It was pretty simple. The interviewer was nice but unimpressed
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a major project
Technical whiteboard question -- write a function to change values in a matrix
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (State College, PA) in Sep 2017
Interview
Easy interview first basic questions on my resume and then 1 technical interview. I had already accepted other offer so didn't move forward with the process. The future rounds were supposed to be on site in philadelphia.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to print out the numbers in the repeated more than n/3 times .
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Blacksburg, VA) in Sep 2017
Interview
There were two parts to the interview which were behavioral and technical in which they asked the behavioral question first then the last 10-15 minutes were focused on the technical part