Is it hard to get hired as a Software Development at Microsoft?

Software Development 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 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.

How long does it take to get hired as a Software Development at Microsoft?

Candidates applying for Software Development roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 40 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 30 days.

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based on 47 ratings - Updated Mar 30, 2021

Average interview difficulty

Mostly positive interview experience

How others got an interview

63%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
12%
Recruiter
Recruiter
12%
Applied online
Applied online
7%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
5%
In Person
In Person

Interview search

47 interviews

Software Development Interview

Jul 28, 2014

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bellevue, WA) in Dec 2013

Interview

Did one interview with me on campus, and then flew me out for a weekend. While there I was interviewed by 4 or 5 different people. Once the interviews were done, I waited (along with a group of others who were interviewing) for decisions to be made. As we left they gave offers to some of us.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How would you create an algorithm to sort wine?

1 Answer

Software Development Interview

Jun 26, 2011

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Difficult interview

Application

The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2009

Interview

Long and drawn out, some crazy questions to see your thought process, no real need to answer correctly

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