I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2022
Interview
I applied to one position but got contacted by a recruiter saying that that position was on hold and that I should apply to another one, and the recruiter provided the job link. After I applied they asked to provide my availability to have a 30mins interview with the hiring manager. After interviewing with the hiring manager they asked to provide additional availability to interview with other members of the team and I provided a few weeks out. Then they said if I can interview in the current week as they have a tight turnaround, so I moved several things around and interviewed. After interviewing I did not hear back for over 3 weeks, and after contacting the recruiter several times I finally got a generic email saying I wasn't selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would kd you balance customer interviewing and innovation, especially since customers "don't know what they want?'
I only got my resume selected and reached to a Hiring manager round, never heard back from them afterwards. Mostly focus on big data tech stack. Later there were supposed to be 3 more rounds
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Prague)
Interview
The interview process consisted of 6 rounds, technical part was pretty difficult (to me) because I lacked knowledge in the given domain, but overall the people I spoke with were nice.
However, when I eventually reached the final round, instead of a personal follow-up from HR I got an automatic email saying that they proceeded with another candidate. And I would get it if I was filtered out at the beginning, but not after the final round of interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you been responsible for at your current product management role?
It was too technical multiple rounds with technical design questions.
3-4 rounds were scheduled in interval of 1 week. Also, they do not update the result unless you ask and without replying to email they update the status on portal.
Principal Product Manager 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 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Product Manager roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 8 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 Principal Product Manager according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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