Internship 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 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Internship roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 142 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 Internship according to 142 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 10%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 5%
Other: 3%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in May 2013
Interview
I was referred by an internal employee and flown to Seattle. I conducted 1-1 whiteboarding exercises with two full-time software development engineers. By the time of the second 1-1 it was clear to me and the interviewer that my interests did not align with the available positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would I speed up the boot time for Windows to make users less frustrated.
Had a coding round which was Leetcode based questions and many people failed in the first round. It was on-campus drive and only one person made to final round. He went through technical interview, HR interview and landed the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Leetcode questions, coding question in prefered coding language
Stage 1: Take-Home Assessment – A 1-hour coding assignment consisting of two technical questions (one Easy and one Medium).
Stage 2: Virtual Interview Day – A Zoom-based interview day comprising three consecutive interviews.
Star method completely end to end with 3 interviews in the same day. It was online and then we were split into rooms. You mess up one and you mess up all