Software Engineer 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 online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jul 2025
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Hiring manager screen initially and onsite loop consisting of 4 rounds. The offer was given two weeks after that. It relied heavily on the position and how one would tackle problems with their past experience.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA)
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I cold applied and I was reached out by a recruiter. The recruiter explained about the role and asked about my background experience. I provided my availabilities for 2 weeks and they scheduled an interview for me.
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I was asked encoding and decoding a string. The interviewer helped me throughout to point me to correct direction.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jul 2023
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I intervivied at microsoft . it was good . They asked me two leetcode style questions. though I didnt get thgouh all the qs they were helpful and i apprciste. i din't get the offer
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Question 1
maximum subarray sum, Anither bit related question that i didnt understand