Senior Engineer 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 29% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 7 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 Senior Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Phone interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Other: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Personality test: 6%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in May 2010
Interview
I talked to the recruiter for 10 minutes then the real process started. In total 6 people interviewed me. I was asked various technical problems to solve. Average problems, not super hard. Had lunch with one of the interviewer and was asked to design a system by describing it. I was told to wait until they make a final decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Return same elements from two arrays as fast as you can.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sydney) in Apr 2026
Interview
I attended 3 rounds of interview . 1. Technical 2.Behavioural 3.Manageral. Technical was bit diffcult , other rounds are good. Verbal offer is given over call. then next week, they said cancelling the offer.Not sure. Why they selected after all the rounds got cleared.Provided salary discussion .I did not even neogitate salary . Still cancelled offer.
The interview process was good but I don\t know about DSA much hence failed and can't pass. Be prepared with DSA and don't work with it as it doesn't bothered with work much
Three stages, peer, manager and tech specialist each for an hour. No weird examples or gotcha questions. Standard STAR format, just come with a good example of something you've done yourself.