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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The interview process was smooth. The recruiters always made sure that the candidates time who are interviewing for them is being valued. The questions that were asked reflected how my day to day work at this organization would look like.
It was very bad. They were biased towards circuital only and did not see others knowledge. They took the interview for formality and have a trend to take only mediocre circuital students having a closed box thinking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question on linked list and hash maps- implementation of LRU caching
I started with a recruiter call, followed by a technical phone interview where I solved coding problems in real time. After passing that, I was invited to a virtual onsite loop with four interviews covering algorithms, system design, and behavioral questions focused on collaboration and problem-solving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, return the length of the longest substring without repeating characters