Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 38%
Phone interview: 38%
Presentation: 13%
Personality test: 13%
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The first part was the on-site test. Then there are 4 interviews taking place in the same day if you pass the test. The test was not that hard and consisted of 4 problems.
After the phone call in case that your skills are match to the position, they invite you to technical interview in their offices, they don't waste too much time to know you, they jump to the technical interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a pseudo code that implement queue and stack
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Aug 2019
Interview
Phone Interview started off with telling about myself, we discussed about my experience and skills. Be good at what you have in your resume. And questions were mostly based on designing.