Software Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
Skills test: 38%
Presentation: 13%
Personality test: 13%
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Asked hard questions from dsa screening round was really difficult and was shortlisted for interview where they asked about salary expectations and future goals and asked a few technical questions which were solvable
I applied through other source. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in May 2025
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A big benefit with using linked lists is that nodes are stored wherever there is free space in memory, the nodes do not have to be stored contiguously right after each other like elements are stored in arrays. Another nice thing with linked lists is that when adding or removing nodes, the rest of the nodes in the list do not have to be shifted.