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Updated Dec 29, 2011 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Dec 29, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
My resume was submitted through the job career site by an employee of Microsoft with her recommendation for the position. A phone interview was set up for a week later. When I was called the recruiter had reviewed my resume and already made up their mind that I would not be a fit for the position. The conversation was short and disappointing. I was not asked any work experience questions but was referred out to other companies to look at.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Dec 20, 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 Sep 2011 in Washington, DC (took a day)
Contacted by a recruiter and prompted to apply online for project manager-public sector position and schedule a phone interview. Interviewer was senior-level HR and was very straightforward and somewhat abrasive at times. Typical behavioral-type questions with the exception of a few unique questions; asking you to explain a fairly basic technical subject (e.g. the internet, databases) to someone like a "child" or "your grandmother" and asking you to describe yourself (strengths/weaknesses etc..) from the perspective of a prior employer or peer.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Sep 9, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Aug 26, 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 Oct 2010 (took 2 weeks)
An introduction to the company followed by very general behavior questions, asked me to explain the uniqueness of my research and my understanding to this position.
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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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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jul 13, 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 Feb 2011 (took a day)
Got a call from MS regarding an interview set up at a location altogether different from my city. I accepted the opportunity and travelled all the way there for the interview.
First sentence: Oh! u are from ABC. We do phone interviews for that city and take locals for in-person. Don't know how this was messed up. Well but we like in-person interviews so lets get started!
Asked about why I applied for this position, what is my fav machine/gadget and why, wht software on it do i like most and why, wht is one feature u wud like to enhance in tht software and why. my software was MS ppt! He like the suggestion tho
next question was on FB messaging - how to improve those features. After considering all the options i presented and he thought of, he picked one and asked me to write function level details for it on a whiteboard. Once that was done, he said 'ok thank you'
Of course I got a 'sorry' email but it was interesting to see the level of functional detail expected out of the candidate applying for a PM post - they do view PMs differently. Apart from the HR location goof up, no catch anywhere. in fact most questions were from Glassdoor itself!
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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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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Mar 4, 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 Feb 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
The interview started with background of the position and the department, as well as the purpose of the project. Then talked about myself for about 5-7 minutes. There were 2 situational questions asked at the end.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jul 4, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2008 in Redmond, WA (took 6+ weeks)
- Phone interview went well. Pretty good with hiring manager.
- I was provided with a couple of recruiters which was good. Great to know that I was being recommended internally.
- Typical all day interview as I read about. Wasn't impressed with the managers but went along.
- Was treated well with the travel.
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Negotiation Details
- No wiggle room at all on salary, stocks, or bonus. Very discouraging. Squeezed out a little for stocks, like 200 shares. No big win. The recruiter appeared bothered that I was even negotiating.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jun 18, 2010
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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 May 2010 in Seattle, WA (took 2 days)
Applied to the position via website. Recruiter called me back and set up a phone screener for a week later. The phone screen consisted of 2 design questions, one of which was to design a parking garage in the center of the city. Interviewer was very pleasant. Received an invitation to fly out to seattle a week later. Had 3 interviews and a lunch over the course of the morning. All questions were design related, with interviewers asking me to create an online book store for a university, a CMS for a private business and a universal remote control. Interviewers were fairly nice, but no personality questions or questions about my experience at all. Didn't make it past the third interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Nov 16, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2009 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
Submitted resume through company info session, run by several non-HR and non-technical people. Received a 1:1 interview shortly thereafter,which consisted of several questions about myself, as well as a code writing exercise. The code writing exercise was fairly simplistic, a single question about transforming a roman number in a string into an integer. After I had solved the problem, I had a discussion with the interviewer for 30 minutes discussing the point that I had missed about twos-complement representation of signed integers.
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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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Project Manager at Microsoft
Posted Oct 31, 2009
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Mountain View, CA (took 3 days)
Initial contact came from a recruiter at a body shop (this was for a 6 month contract). "We found you on the web". Recruiter conducted a more thorough than usual phone screen, seemed to know her subject matter, and referred me to the hiring manager at Microsoft. The hiring manager called me the next day, but she was really sick - the interview lasted about 20 minutes. She was very friendly, the interview was pleasant, the questions fairly lowball. It quickly became apparent that they wanted in-depth technical experience that I did not have (this wasn't clear from the job description). The next day the recruiter called me and confirmed this.
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