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%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 13%
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I was contacted by a recruiter and I accepted to have a screening interview. It was an informal discussion about myself (what I studied, what I was doing in my job at the time and what would be the motivation of changing it). We also talked about about the role I was interviewing for (what were the expectations about the role and if I was familiar with certain technical requirements).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jul 2022
Interview
1 round hr interview
1 round phone for 1 hour
1 round on-site for 4 hours and first round is with hiring manager. 3 rounds are white board coding, 1 round is system design
Good. were asked about sys design, and databases and javascript.
How to scale systems and how to make them good.
Good. were asked about sys design, and databases and javascript.
How to scale systems and how to make them good