Senior Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in May 2019
Interview
Phone screening was the first stage, on-site interview with 3 team members and the manager. Everyone was very nice, the question ranged from design to coding on the whiteboard
It was good over all.
First was a phone interview and then a skype i interview. Then I was asked to fly to seattle for 5 back to back interviews.
2 of them were designing and 3 coding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One behavioral and one technical in all 5 back to back interviews
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Feb 2019
Interview
Screening: They invited about 10 people on a week day at 9 in the morning and handed over a sheet of paper containing 2 programming questions to be solved in 1 hour. The questions were at easy and medium difficultly level.
1st, 2nd round: Standard algorithmic questions
3rd, 4th round: Design messenger, online book reader
Positives
- Some interviewers were polite and intelligent
- Timely feedback after each interview
Negatives
- The role and the team to be hired for wasn't clear even till the hiring manager round. They just said it's going to be under Office 365 umbrella but there are tens of teams I could have put in. Not even sure about role being a backend or a client one. They said I would get to know it when I join. They have to understand it's unacceptable for anyone who has some industry experience.
- A lot of wait. They asked us to arrive at 9 but didn't start before 10. The whole day got wasted in the process without any meaningful takeaway.