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 college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
It was a 1 hour long Skype Interview and after some basic questions about what I do, they asked me a bunch of logic questions and HR questions about why I would like to work at Microsoft.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you find out a heavier ball from a group of 9 balls in 2 weighings? What are your strengths and weaknesses> Why would you like to work for Microsoft?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Chennai) in Dec 2015
Interview
There were total 4 rounds of interviews
- Coding round which also included object questions from the database, operating system, and data structures and algorithms
- Group fly round. They divided students into groups of 5 and every group was assigned, one mentor for doubt clearance. Each group was asked to do particular coding and design questions.
- Technical round
- Technical and HR round
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Columbus, OH) in Feb 2018
Interview
It was an on-campus interview. The recruiter asked me to talk about everything on my resume, including the projects I've done. And the internship experience. Since I used to intern at IBM, Microsoft was very interested in the experience in IBM. And at the end, he asked a super easy programming question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to check if a string is a palindrome or not