Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Intern according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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This was my first phone screen with Microsoft. It was supposed to last 30 minutes, but mine ran over a little. My recruiter read off a list of questions and recorded my answers. No coding questions. My recruiter just wanted to see if I was a good fit for any internship position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have 9 marbles. All of them are exactly the same, except one is slightly heavier than the rest. You have a balance scale. How can you find the heavier marble if you only use the balance scale twice.
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
Initial phone interview for half an hour about SDE SDET and PM questions.
Final round was at Redmond. 3 rounds of coding interviews each for 45 minutes. Each one focuses on 1 of the 3 questions.
(There was a gathering event the night before the interview. We were able to meet and chat with other interviewees, former interviewees and interviewers.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical questions were not hard.
One of the testing questions were : You are given a Cartesian plane and there is this program to compute the distance between two points. Use ten pairs of points to test it.
over all a very smooth and plesent experience, all the interviewers were very friendly and informal. most of the questions were on data structures and algo and software engineering. most of them were easy, 3 rounds total, 1 hr round which was completely non technical, other 2 rounds were completely technical.