Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 200 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 200 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 7%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 2%
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HR communication was one of the worst parts of this process. She contacted me after several weeks of silence and said we needed to schedule interviews within three days if I was available. After that, she forgot to share the preparation documents, even after I followed up.
The interviews mainly focused on low-level system discussions, with a few behavioral or casual chat questions. The final interview with the manager was one of the worst management interviews I have ever experienced. He spoke in a very top-down manner and repeatedly talked about his own background. He asked technical questions while sharing a presentation screen, and I did not write a single line of code during the entire process.
The technical questions were almost comical and extremely subjective. Overall, it was one of the most unprofessional and biased interview processes I have participated in.
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content