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:
Phone interview: 38%
Skills test: 38%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
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Smooth process. Four rounds of interviews. First Online Assessment Second DSA round String related medium level Third System Design, Design a ERP system Fourth DSA round with medium level difficulty on stacks and queues. Fifth Director round, personality test.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv) in Sep 2020
Interview
I had two interview with two different people back to back with 2 questions each. each one was 45 minutes, taking overall an hour and a half. The interviewers were nice and the question were not that hard but I was late so that made me stressed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
develop an algorithm that can tell if you won at X-O with size nxn. develop an algorithm given a tree return an array with each cell as the list of the nodes in that depth of the given tree.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Vancouver, BC) in Sep 2022
Interview
First contact from recruiter. Do hacker rank problems (you can find them on reddit for most recent thread) , White board in person make sure not to get too nervous