Developer 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 Developer 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 Developer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 38%
Phone interview: 38%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
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It's a quick interview, we start from several behavioral questions and he asked me about my previous projects listed on my resume, and then we had a quick coding question, the interview
lasted around 30 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to deal with tough person in the same team?
Validate a binary search tree
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
A friend working at Microsoft as an intern ask me if I would be interested by an intern position and I give him my résumé. Few weeks later, I got an eMail from the University recruiter and I scheduled a phone screen interview. Basically, I got HR and behavioral questions.
One week after the phone interview, I received an invitation to come at Redmond for final round interview. I got 4 interviews that day and all of them were technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of distinct integers. Print all possible permutations of that array.
Example: [1,2,3]
Answer : [1,2,3] ; [1,3,2] ; [2,3,1] ; [2,1,3] ; [3,1,2] ; [3,2,1]
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
Non-technical phone interview for a software engineering internship, focusing mainly on behavioral questions, projects, and work experience. I just Attend the Imagine cup, and get the nice score, they would send the email to you for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just introduce the project in your CV, they would ask very detail question