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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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
- Dropped off resume at career's fair.
- Was contacted by HR a few days later and was scheduled for an on-campus interview.
- In the on campus interview was asked some basic questions, "what was the most difficult problem?"
- Technical questions involved: "Implement +, -, * and / without the use of any operators", "Given that data is coming in a continuously, how would you query the data?", and a debugging problem
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Implement +, -, * and / without the use of any operators
- Given that data is coming in a continuously, how would you query the data?