SDE1 applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SDE1 roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 15 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 SDE1 according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Presentation: 24%
Phone interview: 20%
Drug test: 8%
Other: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Patiala) in Aug 2018
Interview
First was the written round having three questions, candidates who had done 2 codes were also selected. 250students applied for the test. Out of which 68 were shortlisted for the next round and after that there was group fly round in which 28 were shortlisted. After that there 3 rounds of personal interviews. Finally, 5 candidates were selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In coding test, they asked first non repeating character in a string. 2nd question was day on 01.01.1900 was Monday, what is the day on a given date after 01.01.1900. 3rd question was remove nodes outside a given range in BST and resulting tree should also be a BST.
In group fly, they asked word break problem and one other problem in which LIS was to be used. In ist round of PI, they asked construct Binary tree from Inorder and Preorder traversal. 2nd was, k-reverse linked list.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderābād) in Jun 2023
Interview
It was good in general. there were 3 rounds. 2 dsa rounds and 1 was behavioral. There were few OS, CN, DBMS ques also. Overall the process was smooth .
R 1 : Coding round was there
R 2 : Pen paper round was there with basic tree question
R 3 to R 5 : Interview round and HR round with questions of medium difficulty level
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Mumbai) in Jun 2021
Interview
It was through engage mentorship program. We had to create a working prototype of a video call application. It was through engage mentorship program. We had to create a working prototype of a video call application.