Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.1 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 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 71 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 40 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer according to 71 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 19%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 13%
Background check: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 4%
Other: 4%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Feb 2021
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First I did an HR review with american interviewer, after that 3 technical interviews which were data structure questions,....
The process take to much time almost two months and in the end have many candidates and they choose one from us.
And it's unsane how much the Interview Process long.
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First Technical Interview:
Implement strtok function, and expand by asking some thing connect to multithreading.
Second Technical Interview:
Data Structure of Cache's (vector of Caches) and each cache divided for segments, and give me API to use that accept one segment and revalidate it.
after the implemantation ask to much question about Threads(mutex for each cache/ mutex for each segment ) and using timestamp....
Third Interview:
1) Describe a game, a matrix(nXn) with 0,1 values and in each iteration in the game accept number 0/1 and put it in down left cell and the other cells rotates.(up righ cell get out of the matrix). ask me to implement data structure for the game. (Solution: using queues for each row, and you have to arrive for a trick about the columns).
2) give me file interface with read function in each call return one row from the file, and must implement:
a- function prints first N rows.
b- function prints last N rows.
Was a typical first round recruiter screen - pretty straightforward but didn't end up getting moved vforwards. Prompt, Professional and overall a good experience. They asked me about my background, explained the role and it was with the recruitment team.
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Describe your background going into detial in each role
Expect a lengthy hiring process that can take at least two months from start to finish. In my experience, there was approximately one month of interviews followed by another month waiting for the final decision. Be prepared for a slow timeline, especially after completing all interview stages.
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Tell me about a time where have above and beyond for a customer
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
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After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
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The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.