I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2023
Interview
Standard coding interview with a medium difficulty leetcode question. That was the first interview and the second was with the hiring manager which was also technical in a different way.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Israel, TX) in Feb 2026
Interview
2 simple medium leetcode questions , you should know about HTML ,knowledge in use css, design question: check understanding in microservices. and OOP - describe classes , functions and vars.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
return indexes of 2 numbers from array which gives sum of target
The process consisted of a day of four interviews - an hour or hour and half each. Each interview was conducted with a different employee. It also included lunch in their campus. They were very honest and engaging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is the number of servers/copies you need on average to ensure that data is not lost in case of failure?
Formal Interview with panel of 2 people. This is a imaginary context. This can be treated as a test post. I will create a proper post later when it make sense to me.
SW 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 25% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SW Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 SW Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 30%
Phone interview: 30%
Skills test: 20%
Personality test: 10%
Background check: 10%
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