I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2018
Interview
Didn’t have to go through first round. Superday, or the second and final round was a very long day. You’re either in the morning group or the afternoon group and you get interviewed by 3 people. They fly you out and give you some free things and take you to lunch. You get to know some of the other students interviewing.
I didn’t make it past first round. The recruiter called said I’d be great fit then ghosted me. I tried to reach back out several times but never heard back.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about my experience and what difficulties I had running campaigns.
The interview process was positive, was a decent length of time and was very clear the whole way through the process. Good experience overall, hard to find a negative. Not too hard but not too easy.
Like any other interview – over zoom, go over a case study. Need to prep a little but but mostly about answering questions with regards to the consumer product and knowing the market demographics inside out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case presentation on launching a new consumer product
Marketing 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 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Marketing roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 52 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 Marketing according to 52 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 6%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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