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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The initial screening was a 30 minute call with a recruiter. We discussed my resume, covered behavioral questions and evaluated the cultural fit. Then, the technical phone screen was a 60 minute call of two programming problems. They were DSA based, some Leetcode mediums.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) in May 2024
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Doing interview questions such as describe yourself, Why did you apply?, Why should we hire you?, What interests you about this role? And tell me about this experience... while answering technical interview
First It begins with problem solving challenge on codility with medium problems after that there was a four-rounds interview in a row with different people with different roles, the first two were technical and problem solving and the other were behavioral.