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. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in May 2017
Interview
Was invited for a coding test for a Bing hiring event. Passed that and was invited to fly to Seattle for an onsite.
I cannot even begin to explain the pathetic nature of the interviews. 16 candidates are brought in from all over and given rooms, and the interviewers go around interviewing each one of them.
I had a horrible experience with the first interviewer. He was laughing in a mocking way when I was on the wrong track for a particular question. He cut me off in the middle when I was giving the answers and when I was on the wrong track for a question and when said oh I could have done it that way, he said not you could have .. u should have... you can't work in Microsoft if you can't come up with solutions. And when his phone rang loudly in the middle of the interview, he didn't even bother to apologize and let it ring for sometime. He also wished me and said "I hope your other interviews go better than this one" ;)
The 4th interviewer seemed super dis-interested too. He kept chatting with someone while I was whiteboarding.
The entire experience was really off for me, I cannot imagine Microsoft allows such unprofessional interviewers to interview candidates who have flown many miles to come attend their interviews.
Will definitely never interview with Microsoft ever again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All basic leetcode questions, nothing interesting.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Houston, TX) in Oct 2016
Interview
I got the interview at the Grace Hopper Conference then proceeded to go on to the second and final round of interviews. That was when they flew me to their offices in Seattle for the final round. It was all very quick the first interview was behavioral and the final round was technical. The final round was 4 hours long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you check to see if a tree is balanced or not?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (París) in May 2017
Interview
1 - Entretien téléphonique : pour prendre contact avec la personne
2 - Entretien technique : où on va avoir un exercice de code, et une discussion technique
3 - Entretien sur place : avec les différentes personnes qui travaille à Epitech