After submitting an application, I was scheduled for an initial interview. Pretty easy questions about my resume and a few PM questions.
I then waited a month before ever hearing anything. I reached out about it and it seemed that my recruiter was not working with them anymore. From here onwards, I was passed around between 4 recruiters. Each piece of communication I received was from someone different and there was no point of contact to ask questions to as none of these 4 ever responded.
I was invited to the final round, which consisted of four 45-min interviews. Most questions were okay and the interviewers were engaging. My issue was that it seemed I was interviewing for a specific team, and I had not been provided with this knowledge beforehand. Two of the interviewers asked very technical and team-specific questions that required in depth technical knowledge of the product and/or general knowledge of the product's architecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Initial round: Describe how the internet works to a five year old.
Final round: Questions about how the Windows OS utilizes CPU power and how to make that efficient while keeping performance intact.
Three rounds of interview starting with phone screening, middle round of online interview and final round of three interviews all schedule within a couple weeks time. Interviews were Microsoft recruiters followed by employees
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If your boss asked you to build a coffee machine in a car, how would you approach it?
Standard behavioral set of questions, walked them through past projects I've worked out and answered some case-like product question, like what is your favorite product / non technical product, etc.
Apply the summer intern programme through official website. 2 rounds of interviews in total. Give general idea of what is a good PM and talk about the latest project. Deal with a small case.
Program Manager Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Program Manager Intern roles take an average of 37 days to get hired, when considering 67 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 Program Manager Intern according to 67 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 41%
Phone interview: 22%
Skills test: 12%
Personality test: 7%
Background check: 6%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Presentation: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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