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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2013
Interview
1 coding round, 3 interviews. most of them are basic data structures questions. some questions on oops concepts. last round was HR question, like why microsoft and on leadership skills. for coding we used white board
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
I went to a campus recruiting event and got an on-campus interview few weeks later. The email communication went well. However, during my interview, my interviewer first changed my schedule from afternoon to the noon. Then he was 20 min late for the interview and finished earlier.
I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I had an initial screening by the hiring manager. Then a series of 4 interviews back to back with both devs and a PM. Process took about a month. Mostly technical questions.