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 online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv)
Interview
They interviewd by phone, and then called me to their offices. There was one interviewer who greated me at the front desk, and took me upstairs for the interview. He told me abour the positon, asked me to tell about myself, and moved on to the technical part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They mainly asked me about the shortest path in a matrix that has "holes"(i.e, unallowed locations), and how to implement in whatever language I wanted, and asked questions around the implementation.
3 rounds
1 - Technical DSA based round - 3 medium to hard questions based on graphs, trees and Dyanamic Programming
2- System Design - OOPs concept with given problem statement were asked.
3 - HR interview - Personality Questions, Behavioural Questions, situation based question.
First I got 4 algorithm tasks, medium. After that I had 4 interviews: coding sessions, design sessions and behavioural. The overall impression was great. The interviewers were very kind and helpful.