Sr. Software engineering Manager 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Sr. Software engineering Manager according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 25%
Other: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
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- 30 min chat with recruiter, both decided to proceed to next stage by the end of the call - 4 interviews of 1h each at the same time along the week. Interviewers were 8h behind in timezone so that arrangement was the best compromise.
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The typical behavioural questions in star format, plus technical questions mainly on service operation and system design.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2025
Interview
The interview has been so far fair. Only three onsite interviews. The position is hiring for building AI apps in products. The interviews have been representative of the position and the candidate's management experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system to manage projects and allow connecting with copilot
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Oslo) in Jan 2022
Interview
the entire process was a learning process and challenging went through the four interviews and i think I lost at the tail end because of being over confident and did not pay attention to the questions which had straight forward answers