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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4 rounds of interviews with several programming questions, algorithms, data structures, operating systems, networks, databases, compilers, memory optimisation, encryption etc. there were some cloud deployment and scaling questions for an hypothetical app.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (El Cairo, ) in Feb 2023
Interview
So Long, but I gain a lot of experience that will help me in my future Interviews.
And the attitude of the interviewers is good.
The salary was so low.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2020
Interview
I am from Europe. First contact was through Linkedin, then short phone call, then non-technical screening with online call. After that invitation for a flight to Dublin for one day-interviews. During that day I was interviewed by four different people with different questions . Answered properly three out of four questions but it wasn't enough for a transfer to the US as a software engineer.
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Question 1
Binary tree, permutations, two stacks & some simple algorithm