I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
4 stage interview.
1st with internal Microsoft recruiter and an initial discussion around interest, why etc.
2nd with a peer and focused on the role and day to day stuff.
3rd again with a peer and more technically focused.
4th with the manager hiring.
All done via Teams.
From application to 1st interview was around a month.
Interviews 2, 3 and 4 conducted over a week.
It took Microsoft 5 weeks after 4th interview to tell me I was unsuccessful. Feedback from recruiter was clear as concise from interview 2 and 3. There was no feedback from the 4th.
Recruiter offered to get the feedback, however none received and it been 3 months.
Process is slow and don’t expect full feedback. From application to rejection took about 3 months.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jul 2021
Interview
Online application, Hiring manager viewed my Linkedin Profile, and then contacted me directly for a MS team interview (45 Min)
Coming from a software engineering background I was expecting a more personalized interview based on the experience. It felt like a hasty process or like the decision was already made and the conversation was only formality. The interviewer were not genuinely interested to hear and also analyze my answers. He even mentioned a few times that we can't spend much time on this part of the interview, need to move on, etc. I was asked about a system design if a company should do and how and a couple of standard behavioral questions. I did not even get the chance to ask all my job related questions due to the time constraint.
To me it looked like I did good enough but I got the rejection letter a day after.
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I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2021
Interview
My first rounds was a phone interview scheduled to be for 30 minutes but it lasted 22 minutes. The second round was a series of 4 interviews in 1 day. First one was very hands-on: the interviewer picked up a random topic from or ongoing conversation and didn’t provide me with much details. Other 3 went well - they were about product design and the last one was more technical but a design question none the less.