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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Microsoft Software Development interview questions

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

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47 interviews

Software Development Interview

Feb 8, 2017

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft

Interview

I had the interview on campus, the interviewer was really cool and friendly, went straight to business asking me about what language I liked best, then onto technical questions. I also asked about his intern experience and he shared his stories with me. He typed my responses the whole time which made me a little nervous, but he had to do that.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Merge two sorted linked list into one sorted one and what is the time and space complexity?

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Software Development Interview

Jan 4, 2017

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Neutral experience

Easy interview

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2016

Interview

Referral by a Employee and contacted by a recruiter in 3 weeks to schedule a interview. The interview was about 30 mins. I talked to a recruiter and she asked several behavioral questions and a brain tester. Not sure how I did. Has been two weeks and did not get back to me.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

How to weight 9 marbles

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Software Development Interview

Jan 3, 2017

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Burnaby, BC) in Oct 2016

Interview

describe the most difficult project,then move to technical question process,then ask me to design a set data structure,then optimize it,time complexity etc.It is not so difficult but I didn't prepare well,so I scewed up.The interviewer was nice but rejected to give hints when I try to optimize my data structure,that's it..

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

tell me the most difficult project you did?how did you solve it?

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