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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Phone screening then technical challenge followed by in person interview with managers on site. No follow up so probably eliminated. Generally a bad experience but worth getting first hand knowledge of the process
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Why are you the best candidate for this job? (something like that)
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Praga) in Oct 2025
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It was nice and smooth, they asked me some technical coding through HackerRank then interviewed me in person, they helped me come up with a solution when I encountered a difficulty.
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I was asked to implement a easy coding question about strings and intermediate and hard level questions about cache structures and data structures and algorithms
I went through all the interviews (4 steps) and I didn't leave any questions without answer and my codes and designs worked. But the comment I got was "your background is more in data science and software engineering is not a good choice for you". Ok, but then why you did that to me?!
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Object oriented programming principals in practice