I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2010
Interview
The whole process was pretty swift, there was the first interview in college after which they offered me an on-site interview. Were pretty flexible with scheduling the interview and also took care of travel & hotel expenses. The actual interview lasted one day, first I went to the Recruiting center where I met my recruiter and talked to him for a while, then I took the shuttle and was off to my first interview. The interviewer asked various questions, some were related to APIs, some were related to my earlier experience, and some were general problem solving questions. I had four different interviews that day and that pretty much was it. After that I came back to the recruiter office, talked with my recruiter again and the next day told me their decision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the character with longest repitition in the string e.g. aaacccddddeefffffffg the result should be 'f'.
It started with a 90-minute online assessment, followed by a technical phone screen with one engineer. The OA covered two medium-to-hard algorithm problems. For coding practice, I mainly rely on "LeetCode" to cover different topics. For company-specific interview preparation, I use "Hack2Hire", "LeetCode Discuss", and "1Point3Acres" to find any recent original questions. All of them are helpful platforms. The phone screen included one coding problem and some discussion around edge cases and time complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of meeting time intervals, determine if a person could attend all meetings.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2024
Interview
I was invited to a technical interview with Microsoft. The interviewer started with a general question: “What happens when you type google.com into your browser?” They asked a few follow-up questions related to that.
After that, they gave me a LeetCode algorithmic question, which was at a hard level. The problem was “Integer to English Words.”
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What happens when you type google.com into your browser?
2. “Integer to English Words” – LeetCode algorithmic question
Three tech interviews + one hiring manager VO, most of questions are medium to hard leetcode questions. Ask some questions about techniques you written on the resume. But I think they care more about the match of the research and the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about the recommendation System you made for the work.
Software Development Engineer 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 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 946 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 Development Engineer according to 946 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Phone interview: 21%
Skills test: 19%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Presentation: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 0%
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