I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Jan 2013
Interview
They totally messed mine up. Set me up with the wrong person and cancelled at 11:00 PM the night before, 10 hours before my interview. Put me in with a group interview. Turned out the group interview was for Dev and Test, not PM. They also were not expecting me. Finally got it worked out. I went to interview and they told me to ask the interviews for PM questions and they would explain the situation afterwards. Turns out they didn't and the interviewers were confused and upset I was just asking for different questions. Was able to explain it after the fact, but by the time it was all sorted all the Boston jobs were filled. They thought I was a decent Dev candidate, though, so the recommended I go interview on main campus actually for Dev this time, which I did and got an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a product to stop groceries from slipping around in the trunk.
2 week after applying online the recruiter called, we set up a phone screen, after that completed a 3x back to back interview with an hour break in between. Not too bad overall and very manageable
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a difficult stakeholder and how you handled the situation
Interviewed at Microsoft but I did not get an offer. Team was nice and there were free drinks and some snacks on site which was a plus. I would love to apply and interview again!
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
Typical behavioral interview process. STAR format style interview questions. Why do you want to work at Microsoft, tell me about a time questions, greatest strengths, greatest weaknesses. Consisted of a recruiter screening, and three back to back interviews with senior and principal PMs.
PM applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for PM roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 264 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 PM according to 264 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Phone interview: 23%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 7%
Presentation: 6%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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