SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 106 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 SWE Intern according to 106 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 19%
Presentation: 18%
Skills test: 14%
Personality test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jul 2023
Interview
The first round was a coding test on platform. After you have cleared the criteria of the online screening test. The second was an online MSteams face-to-face interview. It takes about 3 days - 1 week for the next consecutive rounds to takes place. I wasn't able to pass the interview round as I wasn't well prepared enough at that time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were simple, on BFS,DFS and tree traversal.
on campus opportunity,; 2 rounds; 1st round interviewer asked a simple 1d dp question related to finding no. of ways ; 2nd round , asked to implement schedulers like fcfs , sjf, rr etc
hr called and set up an interview loop day, the day consisted 3 interview each is 90 minutes, first two are leetcode medium, which put emphasis on clean code in a live coding environment. the third was with the department manager and it was a behavioural test
very chill, two rounds technical interview, normal LC easy/med plus behavioral.. post interview did not hear back for two weeks but then heard the good news. everyone was nice and supportive in the process.