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%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
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I applied at Microsoft and I received a response quickly. I did the phone interview, the discussion was really nice, they were more interested about me and my projects. In the following interview they will ask more technical questions. The data structures ones were more difficult.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2018
Interview
Went through a recruiter screen, technical phone screen and full day on site.
I was interested in working with Microsoft till the on site where many of the interviewer did not want to be there. Made me feel really disrespected and I was loathing every second of it. Hiring manager was slightly better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Effects of multiple threads calling the same instance of a class.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn. Got an online test. Test consist of 3 questions to be solved in 1 hour. No test cases and IDE were provided.
I cleared the online test and was called for onsite interview. It was an hiring event. I had four rounds of interview there.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
clone the graph.
circular linked list.
one medium difficulty question on dynamic programming