Software 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 Software 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 Software Developer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 38%
Phone interview: 38%
Presentation: 13%
Personality test: 13%
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This was on campus opportunity. 2 rounds of interview. 1 st round had 1 dsa question and 2nd round was resume screening and one easy level dsa question was asked.
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What challenges you faced in internship work and how did you tackle them
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2024
Interview
Applied in February, received a response after two weeks. First a screening call and then a technical assessment. The questions were similar to questions in the leetcode question bank. The questions were of a a medium and hard difficulty level.
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Question 1
How can you identify when a grid of land is split by water as tiles are flooding with water.
The recruiter called and had a 30 min phone conversation. There was a phone interview first where they asked 1-2 coding questions and then the virtual onsite was 4-5 coding interviews along with behavioural questions.
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Question 1
Given an array of words figure out if any 2 words have the same letters.