SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 106 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 SWE Intern according to 106 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 19%
Presentation: 18%
Skills test: 14%
Personality test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
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Screening phone call with technical recruiter. Then a couple weeks later an email saying I passed the screen. Then an email to schedule 2nd round coding interviews. Given up to 3 weeks to prepare.
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Question 1
Focused on projects listed on resume, tell me about a time you've worked in a group, explain a particular technical concept to a child, what technologies do you like best, what are your two strongest languages. Coding was array-based
on campus opportunity,; 2 rounds; 1st round interviewer asked a simple 1d dp question related to finding no. of ways ; 2nd round , asked to implement schedulers like fcfs , sjf, rr etc
hr called and set up an interview loop day, the day consisted 3 interview each is 90 minutes, first two are leetcode medium, which put emphasis on clean code in a live coding environment. the third was with the department manager and it was a behavioural test
very chill, two rounds technical interview, normal LC easy/med plus behavioral.. post interview did not hear back for two weeks but then heard the good news. everyone was nice and supportive in the process.