Software Engineer 2 applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer 2 roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 11 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 Software Engineer 2 according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 28%
Phone interview: 22%
One on one interview: 22%
Background check: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Personality test: 6%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sydney)
Interview
First round is the online coding test,
After around a week got contacted by the recruiter and scheduled the online coding interview next week. According to the document the whole process will have 3 to 4 round of interviews
Phone Screen done for teams, easy Data Structures questions, and scenario based on what DS to use when.
Also got a scenario of designing a hashing algorithm for partitioning purposes, which talks about different ways of solving it, and how to implement that using Hashmaps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA questions like when to use HashMaps vs Queues vs Stacks.
2 technical round in same day. Virtual interview, just got call from HR 2 days before the interview. Panel was good then create comfortable environment and they were encouraging me and supporting me to solve the problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st technical round - panel asked hacker rank problem solving questions on graphs+tree DS based problem, problem was related to count the number of path which forms a palindrom in BT
2nd round - Design a notepad
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
Interview
It was much easier than I expected- It started of with a technical HackerRank screening 2 Med + 1 Hard LC.
1st Round - System Design & LLD of something like sports scoreboard [30mins] + Behavior [15mins]
2nd Round - Behavior[25mins] + 1 LeetCode Problem (20mins)
3rd Round - Culture Fit/ Behavior [45 mins solid Behavior]
4th Round - LLD (Restaurant Reservation) + 2 LeetCode [Medium - PrefixSum & LinkedList]