Software Engineer(Internship) applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer(Internship) roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 562 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 Software Engineer(Internship) according to 562 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 30%
Presentation: 19%
Phone interview: 17%
Skills test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublin, Dublin) in Aug 2021
Interview
The first round interview was a 30 min virtual interview which was set up on Microsoft Teams. It had mostly behavioural questions such as: "What do you think makes a good programmer?" and "What are some of the Microsoft technologies that you use" (this would have a follow-up to ask for an improvement upon that technology if you name one). This interview would end with a brain teaser/problem that you are given 10-ish minutes to solve. They may not necessarily be looking for the right answer, but they do want you to think the process out loud. The interviewer did a great job at making me feel comfortable and confident!
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Behavioural Questions followed by one brain teaser/problem which we are given about 10 minutes to solve.
Easy 2 back to back interviews both leetcode medium. Second one was a bit more challenging, need to know how to sort without enough space. Other than that smooth process
A leetcode style test with three problems, then three interviews with different managers ( for each it was a coding problem and behavioral questions). Each interview was 1 hour long
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How do I react and handle a conflict situation at work
I applied through their website with a referral, after a month or so they sent me a home exam, I think about a month after that i had 3 interviews in the same day, each one around 1:15 hours.
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Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)