I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2015
Interview
Program Manager - Did a phone interview and was invited for a second round in person interview on the Microsoft campus. Was interviewed by three different people throughout the day. I expected more questions like the type I've posted below, but the two other interviewers asked me exclusively about previous non-tech jobs on my resume which really threw me off.
I've worked for a college access program for high-achieving low-income high school students and one of the interviewers asked me about ways in which the organization could measure its impact. She didn't seem to like that my answers had to do with following and evaluating program graduates' success. At the end of the interview she mentioned that other ways of evaluating its success would be to measure racial and economic diversity growth at colleges as well as leadership positions across various types of careers. I modestly disgreed with her because the organization is exceptional at what it does, but it does it with under 100 students a year. Attributing diversity growth in such broad areas to the organization isn't particularly good at saying anything specific about the organization, whereas following program alumni throughout college and their careers and evaluating their success is more directly related to the organization.
The other question was about developing ways to make a small phone/computer repair business that I run better. Wasn't sure exactly what the interviewer was looking for so I talked about expansion, quality assurance, customer guarantees, and developing an app and online presence.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design the backup feature for windows phone? (As we spoke more she also asked about more concrete things like how often does it back up/what files does it back up/
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru)
Interview
OA was taken, it was easy-medium consisting of a string problem and a DP problem. Technical Interview 1 was taken where they asked tree traversals using iteration and construction of trees using traversal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Space Complexity of Traversal, also explain Morris Traversal
The entire process only had two rounds and it was really simple. Each round was around 45 minutes to an hour with a current Microsoft engineer and they just ask you a typical leetcode style question. There was also a behavioral round that was really simple.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first round was a typically leetcode question that was really easy. The second round was a little bit harder. It was about having a nxn square made out of 0s and 1s and it wants you to compute what the square looks like if it was rotated.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade, Central Serbia) in Apr 2026
Interview
It was a really enjoyable experience overall. Although I didn’t get the position, the interview itself was great, and I truly appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the role, the team, and the company.
Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 488 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 Intern according to 488 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Phone interview: 20%
Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Group panel interview: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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