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 through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Went in for 30 minute screening interview. The interviewer got my name wrong and called me "miss" but I'm a dude. I was told to ask any questions I had first, and as a result I think I spent too much time because we ran out of time for everything else. The interviewer didn't know the answers to my questions either and to be honest I had a very difficult time understanding what they were saying the entire time. I was asked to solve a coding problem in C, even though I listed python on my application. As a result, I did terribly even though it was a painfully simple problem. He spent nearly 10 minutes abstracting the beans out of " I was not asked a single behavioral question, just "when do you graduate" and "what language did you list on your application?" I took to long to understand what he was trying to ask that he told me right then we were out of time and I didn't have a chance at this job.
The entire thing left me dazed and confused
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you store a 2-d data set of indeterminate size without n^2 access time
the campus interview is for 30 minutes. First ask some questions about your resume and projects. Then have one technical question. how to traverse string, such as "Hello World" to "dlroW olleH"
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I traveled to Seattle for on-campus interview. I gave fours rounds of interviews but couple of my friends gave three round of interviews as well. So, if you are lucky you can get it done in three interviews too. Two of interviews were technical and other two were behavioral/product design interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you build xyz project? "one of the projects from my resume"