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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applied online, and had an on-campus interview.
Interview was about 40 minutes talking about my background and
asked 1 question and related sub-questions.
Simple interview, no surprises. Its a big corporate, so everything you would expect from the standard interview process, including personality, interests, strengths, technical questions. A fair amount of questions were asked about previous employments and projects, employment history and so on. Expectations were a big part of the process. Read about any cliche corporate interview, and its all here.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
1st round: 50 questions. 25 questions basic C and C++. 25 questions maths. (data interpretation)'
2nd round: coding
Q1. replace all spaces with $ in a sentence
Q2. something related to binary tree
Q3: linked list implement
3rd round: interview
about database, permutation and combination of all the given alphabets and networks.