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. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I've applied online and after two months I've received a mail to sschedule a phone interview. The interviewer said that the interview will last 30 min. After that, they booked me a flight to prague and had an on site inteview at the skype headquarters that lasted about 5 hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you do if the client asked for a new feature with only one week left before the release?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Shanghái, Shanghai) in Nov 2014
Interview
two telephone interview, two onsite interview. In the two telephone interview, the interviewers are all PM(I think), they asked me many things about my resume. In the onsite interview, the interviewers asked me two simple algorithms, very easy, they also asked me some system design questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: how to reverse a string?
Q: Give an integer unsorted array, how to let every digital is bigger or smaller than its left and right digital. O(n) time cost.
Q: Design a distributed system to handle real-time data.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2014
Interview
I got a phone call from their office in Redmond and the interview lasted 45 minutes. The interview included short answer technical questions to behavioural and problem solving questions. No coding questions.