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Updated Jan 18, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Bellevue, WA (took a day)
Had an on-campus interview that was essentially all fit, got an on-site through that. On-site interview was with Windows group, 4 back to back. Was asked coding questions in 2 of them, including one about writing a program in C++ to do matrix multiplication.
One interviewer was extremely rude, ridiculing my answers to all of his fit questions and giving me an extremely vague coding question about how to program an elevator control unit. Got upset when I asked him for details about the specs.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Dec 10, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 4+ weeks)
I submitted my Resume at a Career Fair and got contacted by a recruiter to do a phone screen. That was all business as usual. I then got invited out to the Microsoft campus to do a series of interviews (I was told between 3-5 for intern interviews). All expenses paid, etc.
Overall pretty solid. Third interview was the hardest and I think is the one that prevented me from getting an offer.
Fourth interview asked me a lot of questions related to vision/the future which I thought was interesting. Unfortunately, she only gave me a little over half the time of a regular interview because she had to go to a meeting or something. Unfortunate and frustrating because I felt rushed and don't think I was able to fully make up my lackluster performance from the third interview.
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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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Intern Program Manager at Microsoft
Posted May 3, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Microsoft was present at my campus career fair. After a brief discussion with one of the employees present there. I was asked to submit my resume and in a few days i received a call for an interview. My interview was scheduled a week later and I appeared for two rounds. The first was analytical and the second was coding skill based. The interveiw was very comfortable but I lost oit due the lack of sufficient syntax knowledge.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Mar 20, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 2 weeks)
The difficulty of the coding/technical question(s) will depend on what position you are applying for and what round of interview it is.
Overall, Microsoft asks very ambiguous questions to see what you will say. The first interview seemed much more qualifications based than behavioral based. Was 30 minutes long.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 (took a day)
I applied in the career fair at college and a few weeks later they scheduled an phone interview for me.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in Seattle, WA (took 2 months)
For the on-site interview in Redmond I interviewed during one of the mass-interview days for the Windows/Windows Live group. I was interviewed by 4 employees. One was behavioral and the other three were mostly design questions. No programming. My group was given a campus tour and stayed in a hotel for 2 nights. Microsoft pays for food, transportation, etc. I found out the results on the same day.
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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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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Apr 15, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
First round was a phone interview through university recruiting (behavioral questions). Got the results within two weeks that I made the cut. Then the long wait began... Months later, I finally got another call for the second round on-site interview in Redmond, WA. In Redmond, they got me a rental car and nice hotel. Very beautiful city... I had a total of 4 interviews. The first was non-technical, but the rest were technical. So be prepared to code. The people working there were nice and they seem to have flexible work schedules.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Jan 8, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Jun 2008 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 weeks)
I sent in my resume via my university's internship office. I waited 2 weeks before they first contacted me. First they did a phone interview consisting of one soft-question (about a past project) and a few technical questions. I was presented with data on a Live NetMeeting session and had to identify the relationship between data items, and later code a procedure that processes data according to the given relationship. After the phone interview I waited around 4 days before they contacted me again for an on-site interview. I already had another offer that I had to respond to, so they were kind enough and made special arrangements to speed-up the process on their end. I interviewed with 4 people from the team I would be working with from 1st level PMs & devs to the product unit manager. Only one person asked behavioral questions, while everybody else asked mostly background questions.
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Salary is non-negotiable for internships, but I had an offer for a similar position from a major telecom and that might have helped in making the decision to hire me.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
Posted Dec 18, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Feb 2008 in Redmond, WA (took 2 weeks)
Received email from recruiter to see if I was interested on interviewing. First call from HR representative, mostly general career / C.V. related questions, very little technical questions. Invited to fly to Redmond campus for a full day of interviews. 5 different people, all program managers asking questions from widely different subjects like Databases, Networking, Problem Solving, UI design. Very exciting interview experience overall.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Program Manager (Intern) at Microsoft
Posted Nov 30, 2009
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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 Nov 2009 in Redmond, WA (took 4+ weeks)
Contacted by MSFT after submitting a resume online (during their recruiting process at my university). After stressing in all of their contact with me (both in hiring presentations and in personal communications) that the program manager position was well-suited to someone with little to no programming experience but a high degree of technical skill (hardware, software, OS, network - I'm a student manager in tech support at school), my interview essentially consisted of one question. A programming question. The interviewer insisted I explain how to write a piece of code in "your language of choice" despite discussing with him two minutes prior that I had very little programming experience.
The question would have been easy if I had recently done any programming, but I hadn't. (In fact, Python, which is the only language in which I have dabbled, apparently doesn't even make use of linked lists). The entire interview consisted of the interviewer talking about himself for 15 minutes, going over my resume in under 5 minutes, and one programming question for 5 minutes. Nothing like what I had expected.
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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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