The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Apr 2009
Interview
There was one on campus interview in March. And the on site interview followed in a few weeks. Microsoft paid everything for the trip to its headquarter. The on site interview were four one on one interviews. The interviewers asked me mostly programming questions and some more general design questions. My past experience listed on my resumes were asked a lot too. I got the offer the next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to split a binary search tree or some other tree?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
started with an intro, then was asked a basic few questions about the resume and then was asked to solve a leetcode problem. it was a medium problem on dynamic programming on strings.
3 back-to-back 45 mins interviews. Interviewers were very nice and it’s important to master behaviorals. I was asked some product sense questions too as I applied for a product manager role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Microsoft? When was the time you faced a challenge and how did you overcome?
first round was resume shortlist, didn't even shortlist profile for 2nd round, no interview furthermore. I have an excellent resume. They shortlisted half of the students for the next round
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Summer Intern 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 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Intern roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 18 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 Summer Intern according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 21%
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Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Background check: 6%
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