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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Human Resources Trax Intern at Microsoft
Posted Nov 2, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 3 days)
Flown out to Seattle to interview at the Redmond campus. Actual interviews consisted of four 45 minute interviews with various HR managers. They were pretty senior managers, typically directors, and came from various business divisions within Microsoft.
They really only asked me about four or five questions during the period, and then asked if I had any questions. There was a great level of variability in how long each interview actually lasted and the kinds of questions they asked me. I was never asked any of the random, lateral thinking questions everyone seems to expect from Microsoft.
In the end, I was not extended an offer. They claim that the candidates that received offers displayed a high "business acumen" and had good "communication" and "systematic thinking" skills.
In all honesty I was lulled into a high level of confidence by the interviewers. They were all very friendly and made it seem as though my interview skills were astounding. That's either the case and the other candidates were even moreso astounding, or they were being deceivingly friendly.
Either way, the actual interview process (flight, stay, hospitality) was second to none.
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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 at Microsoft
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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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 Oct 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
Got the interview by applying through my university's co-op job website. Had a seminar on campus to meet with the team and who would be interviewing us. Had 2 back-to-back 1-on-1 interviews with current program managers, each being about 45 minutes long. Asked to design user experiences on different devices.
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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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Marketing at Microsoft
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
The Microsoft process is a very thorough process that takes you to campus for a series of interviews (typically an entire afternoon or morning). In my case, I had 4 back-to-back 1:1 interviews and 3 of them were behavioral "fit" interviews where the interviewers just wanted to get to know me. Three of those were with fairly senior people, one was with a more junior member of the team. My one case interview went poorly (on my part): I had been asked to prep for Marketing-style questions ("what's the best marketed product," "how would you improve X product," etc.), and the only question my case interviewer asked me was "How would you price our product?" The interviewer helped me narrow it down later, but didn't add much to clarify while I tried to think about all the different pricing issues with software products. I probably got dinged on that interview alone. Very unfortunate, since I've interned there and I love Microsoft. Lesson learned: be very sure to know exactly what group you're interviewing for, if possible.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 4 days)
After two 1-hour phone screens, I got interviewed using live meeting. The interview was standard Microsoft interview with a lot of coding questions. I was interviewed by 5 interviewers on one day, and another on day 2 but by that time I was quite sure I would get the job.I had had reservations about the live meeting but it turned out to be a better way to interview with the ability to code on the computer rather than the white board.
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Negotiation Details
Negotiated on the base salary and I was able to get it 5% higher.
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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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Senior Manager at Microsoft
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
I have worked at Microsoft for 3 years as a vendor, so I'm accustomed to the culture and the PROCESS involved with everything. The interview process was no different. It included a rather challenging phone screen with Recruiting (very specific acronyms specific to the role I was interviewing for), then a wait for 3 weeks before an interview loop of 6 Director level or higher members of the team/extended team I'd be working on. Then, another 3 weeks of waiting before being invited to interview with the GM. The rest of the process was as I would have expected, but I was disappointed in the 30 minute final interview. The GM was completely unprepared, had not looked at my resume and had no meaningful questions to ask me. This was disappointing since I had had SO long to prepare and could have answered anything that came my way. When I followed up with Recruiting I was told it would take at least 2 weeks before I'd have an answer. Fortunately, the HIring Manager (whom I had worked with previously) set up a meeting with me the following week to let me know why they had gone with another candidate. I was relieved rather than disappointed! The entire process did nothing to excite me about working at Microsoft.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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PM Intern at Microsoft
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 1 week)
It was very straightforward. Five back-to-back interviews covering C++ programming, a brain teaser or two, and some feature design (I think it was some sort of specialized alarm clock for disabled people). It was very organized with a concrete schedule for the day. There were also a number of behavioral questions.
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N/A, this was an internship
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Executive Assistant at Microsoft
Posted Oct 13, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Sep 2011 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
When leaving the building while visiting a former supervisor, a colleague was coming into the building and asked me how I was doing. I told her I was looking for a job and she said "come to see me"; she knew me from working in the same building with several other groups. We emailed to coordinate date and time and I went. She was very nice and positive but very busy; even though I had a hard copy of my resume, she asked to email it to her so she could forward it to the hiring manager. I have not heard from her again.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Analyst at Microsoft
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Redmond, WA (took 2 days)
First round interviews occurred on campus at the University. The interview was 1:1 and consisted mostly of behavior interview questions. There was one technical question testing understanding of finance. At the end of the interview I was told I would hear back from Microsoft shortly. I was then offered a final round interview in Seattle. I traveled to Microsoft HQ a couple of weeks later. Final round interviews were four 1:1 interviews that were both behavioral and technical.
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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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Game Developer at Microsoft
Posted Oct 4, 2011
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3.0
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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 3 months)
Had a MS HR person email me about two months after applying for the job. Organised a phone screener with head of department.
Went well but it was really just the guy and myself going through my resume (a much older version than the most recent one I had posted on the MS job site). I thought the talk went well but I didn't hear anything until I contacted the recruiter a few weeks later to follow up.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Redmond, WA (took a day)
phone interview is quite simple, need to use share document.
Asked to implement atoi and itoa in C, not allowed to use STL
then asked a few other easy questions
onsite met with three guys, one guy asked a high school math problem: Given a billiard ball's coordinate and the hit angle, compute the location of the next contact with the wall. then asked a few other behavior questions. another interviewer asked a question about polynomial arithmetic, probably add/subtraction, don't remember if any multiplication is involved, the last guy asked a question about binary tree: given inorder and preorder traversal, output the postorder traversal.
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Negotiation Details
basically nothing to negotiate for fresh graduates, they give you a number and that's it.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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