Was recruited by my school. There were on campus interviews for the position which I applied through our career website. I also had an internal referral from someone I know who works there. The first round was on campus and it wasn't bad at all. Make sure you know what marketing generally is and how to use segmenting, targeting and position to sell a product. Make sure you think about what products are marketed well too and know generally about MSFT products.
Final round I was flown out to Seattle. It was 6 back to back interviews with different divisions of MSFT marketing. Thought I did well, there was one guy who really grilled on some technicalities. Other than that, it was a laid back process and the people were really nice. Didn't end up getting but enjoyed my experience!
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Question 1
If you had to pick a MSFT product and expand it to another market, how would and where would you do it?
The guy who grilled interviewees really hard also asked how do you design a piano for blind people? Thrown off by that one.
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.
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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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