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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1. on-screen conversation with team leader.
2. two live codility sessions, 60 minutes each one.
First part concluded an easy and a medium difficulty questions, and the the second session was only one medium classic codility question.
The last part was an one-on-two conversation with the team leader and the head of department.
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Question 1
merge sorted linked lists, find longest substring with no duplicate letters in a string.
Lots of questions about my current job, difficulties, challenges, strengths and weaknesses.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
It was pretty straight forward. You usually apply to join a team and i interviewed with 2 teams. for the team i ended up joining, I did one phone interview, then 4 back to back technical interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a data structure and implement some methods.
Pretty difficult, but rewarding process. I feel like there were a lot of different things we discussed during the interview, but ultimately I felt like it was a well rounded process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can't answer that. Coding and behavioral questions.