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Updated Jan 27, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)
i applied the intern through their website. After 3 days, I was notified that I will get a phone interview. The phone interview is carried out by a HR, who did not ask any kind of technical question. All the questions she asked are background - related.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Redmond, WA (took 3 months)
I provided my resume to my university's recruiter. I had worked with her in the past for a Microsoft sponsored student event, so she knew me.
A few weeks later Microsoft was conducting interviews on my school campus and invited me for what they call "oncampus interviews." This takes the place of a phone screening. Before the interview I fill out a form stating what positions I'm interested in: SDET, SDE, or PM. On the day of the interview you are interviewed by a single person, who asks general questions, and then questions more specific to your preferred area.
If you pass this phase you're invited to an interview at Microsoft, and you meet with multiple people, generally interviewed by two teams. You go to the office of the person interviewing you, and have to answer technical questions and do whiteboard programing. At each stage the interviewer can choose to send you home, but if they don't you're eventually interviewed by the fifth and final person, the hiring manager who has final say in whether you get an offer or not.
It took several months before my last interview before I heard that I was going to be getting an offer. This was unusual compared to my friends experiences.
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I did not attempted to negotiate.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took a day)
The Microsoft Interview was a pioneer in that it was about technical knowledge, problem solving and creativity as opposed to the goal and weaknesses interviews most companies used at the time. Initially based on Bill Gates' obsession with puzzles, many of the puzzles presented during interviews started off being Fermi problems, or sometimes logic problems, and have eventually transitioned over the years into questions relevant to programming[2]: [P]uzzles test competitive edge as well as intelligence. Like business or football, a logic puzzle divides the world into winners and losers. You either get the answer, or you don't... Winning has to matter. [3] Joel Spolsky phrased the problem as identifying people who are smart and get things done while separating them from people who are smart but don't get things done and people who get things done but are not smart[4][5]
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took 1+ week)
The campus recruiter contacted me after I submitted my resume in the job fair. They arranged a 1:1 interview on campus a month later. It's not a difficult one. The interviewer just asked general questions to know the interviewee. No coding was tested on this interview. 2 weeks later, the recruiter provided me an onsite interview opportunity. There were 5 interviewer plus a lunch interview. It's more about the algorithm, team working, testing, and personality questions.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted Aug 10, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
They ask question like mathmatical puzzles.....they wanted to how i approach things or i can say how i react to things...it was for my internship 2011 summer.....
4 rnds
written
tech written
tech interview
hr
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Jul 16, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 4+ weeks)
two phone interviews, then onsite
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
phone interview to know background and technical details was most important
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted May 10, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 (took 2 days)
phone screen
onsite 1/2 day (4 interviewers - peers)
onsite 1/2 day (4 interviewers - managers)
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted Feb 22, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Hyderabad (India) (took 2 days)
A written test which asks questions on C,C++,OS,data structure,DBMS. If you clear the written test, They will have 3 more rounds of technical interviews and one HR interview. mainly will ask to code or give the algorithm.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Engineering at Microsoft
Posted Feb 10, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 (took a day)
It took about one day. Meet 3 managers from different department.
both technical and behavior interviews.
Those managers were pretty nice.
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