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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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lagos) in Nov 2020
Interview
Online Assessment as a prequalification for onsite interview. The recuriter sent a codility link to me which has 3 questions for 2.5 hours. Questions in Long distance problem, sum of sub-array
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