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%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
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It was thorough and mostly coding questions. Plus 1 system design question. All of the interviews were 1 hour long with the final interview being behavioral. The core concepts involved .net and azure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a national movie theater website?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bucarest, )
Interview
HR Round only, usual questions. It went well, but I did also get some technical questions which I was not expecting. Wanted to schedule the technical interview 3 weeks ahead so I did not move forward.
passed the codility test and got an email saying that. However, I was never invited for a following interview. The test itself was average level of leetcode and was constructed from 2 questions.