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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three coding interviews depends on problem solving skills to see how the interviewee receive the problem, how he tackles it, how he engages with the interviewer and of course his coding skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Il Cairo, ) in Nov 2023
Interview
remote interview via microsoft teams. We’ll have a quick chat about what you’re up to at the moment, but the main focus will be us doing a bit of coding together in an online coding room.
I attended the hiring event. There were 4 rounds with 3 technicals and one system design. They asked behavioral questions for the first 20min or so for each round and then the technical question. Pretty standard and straight forward process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not typical Leetcode questions, but rather something the interviewers came up themselves and directly from work. There was even graph and excel involved, very tricky, and I found myself not having enough time to do it after answering all the behavior questions they had. System design was asking to design something like google doc. Overall, I would say the bar was pretty high.