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:
Phone interview: 38%
Skills test: 38%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
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Three rounds: online assessment with two LeetCode-style problems (medium difficulty, graphs and dynamic programming), a system design round focused on designing a rate limiter at scale, and a behavioral round with standard competency questions. Interviewers were professional and gave clear feedback between rounds.
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Question 1
Design a system that handles 100,000 requests per second with rate limiting per user and per IP. Walk me through your architecture choices
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I attended only the coding round session and was not able to get selected. The experience was good and need to learn harder for the next attempt for this same role
it was fine. There were a lot of DSA questions mainly about graph and trees. Interviews were kind of shy, but very nice and overall a good process. Microsoft his team based however, so there is a very little room for team change in the process.