Software Engineer 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 64% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 1,705 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 Software Engineer according to 1,705 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Phone interview: 23%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 11%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Roorkee) in Dec 2017
Interview
It was campus placement.
Process consisted of Online Test followed by group-fly and then interviews on campus.
1. Online Test : It had 3 coding questions. Test was of moderate level.
2. Group Fly Round : Then there was on group fly round on campus in which we were given two questions and we had to solve and code the solutions on paper. Then they evaluated and shortlisted candidates for interviews.
3. Interviews : Had three round of interviews with two being purely technical and last one being technical cum HR round.
Interview questions [10]
Question 1
[Online Test] Q1 : Given prices of a stock on N days in an array, find the max profit we can make by buying and selling in those days.
[Interviews - Round 2] Q1 : Given strategy/protocol on how producer would produce. Tell the strategy for consumer to consume in single producer multiple consumer model.
[Interviews - Round 2] Q2 : Write functions to find the middle node of a linked list and insert near middle such that after the insertion middle element does not change.
[Interviews - Round 3] Q1 : Given a shuffle function which shuffles 52 cards you want to check whether the functions is good shuffler or bad. You can do so by performing 10 M (or 100 M or 1 B) shuffles. Now give us a efficient strategy to perform this and give efficient data structure.
[Interviews - Round 3] Q2 : This was mainly HR questions. Some of the questions are What do you want to do in life ? How did you get AIR 737 in JEE. What are your strong points / skills.
The process consisted 3 technical rounds after clearing the OA , consisted of medium to hard story based question. Not all round interviewer asked to run the code the last 1 just asked the approach
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Theay asked a graph (bfs) + bianry search question
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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Question 1
Describe your background going into detial in each role