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 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2015
Interview
I got a call from an internal recruiter about a hiring event, after making it past an initial phone screening and an online assessment. The interview lasted an entire day from 7:00 a.m. Ultimately never got any feedback, until hunting down the original recruiter and even then the feedback was vague.
The interview was very casual. Met with a few different staff members. Process took about 2 hours. I would say everyone was friendly as easy going. Definitely made you feel welcomed.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellvue, VA) in Sep 2018
Interview
I was contacted through email by a Microsoft recruiter that there was a recruiting event day in Redmond, WA. I followed up and completed an online assessment which was 3 technical questions with coding and bug squash and design. I then went onsite two weeks later with an interview day: 4 technical interviews with principal engineers back to back in an interview building with other candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a sorted integer matrix where columns and rows are increasing, efficiently find if an element exists in this matrix (n x m).