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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Toronto, ON) in Sep 2016
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Applied through career fair and gave my resume. They sent an email about a week later asking to confirm a date and time for an interview on-campus. Average difficulty interview. Just one technical question and discussed about previous internship experience. 30 minutes only.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Londres, Inglaterra) in Aug 2016
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Worst company to interview for. Recruiters don't respond to their emails and there's no coordination between them. You usually have to pass an HR phone interview before being invited for the final round of on-site interviews. I have passed 3 HR interviews (in consecutive years) but I've never got the chance to reach the final round because the recruiters simply didn't get back to me no matter how many times I have insisted. I also know friends who were supposed to fly to a Microsoft office for the final round but they never got the plane tickets. In Eastern Europe I understand that they interview a batch of candidates at the time, so you either make it in that batch or never hear from them again.
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Questions about my experience and a stupid brain teaser.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2016
Interview
Firstly I got an email from Microsoft and talked with a staff on skype. Secondly, I had a technical interview too on skype. Thirdly I went to microsoft office in another country and had a big interview which was done by 4 people. All of them is controlled by many people and all of them are very friendly and professional.
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question on skype:
think that there is a string like this : axxxxaxbxxb
write a function that will find the closest space between a and b. according to above string, the closest space is 1. (...axb..)
during my big interview, I had 4 different interview with four difderent people. they were very polite and helpfull so you feel relaxed during the interview. they asked some questions which should be done using linkedlist, quicksort. besides one of them asked about how I can test my code and what kind of things should be important for testing.. they also asked for about what is race condition, scaliability of project, testing techniques, agile methodologies..