Principal Product Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 43% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Principal Product Manager roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 8 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 Principal Product Manager according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 20%
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Recruiter notified me via email and asked for my availability for an initial phone screen. Did phone screen with hiring manager and moved to the final round with 5 other interviews on the same day
I only got my resume selected and reached to a Hiring manager round, never heard back from them afterwards. Mostly focus on big data tech stack. Later there were supposed to be 3 more rounds
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Prague)
Interview
The interview process consisted of 6 rounds, technical part was pretty difficult (to me) because I lacked knowledge in the given domain, but overall the people I spoke with were nice.
However, when I eventually reached the final round, instead of a personal follow-up from HR I got an automatic email saying that they proceeded with another candidate. And I would get it if I was filtered out at the beginning, but not after the final round of interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What have you been responsible for at your current product management role?
It was too technical multiple rounds with technical design questions.
3-4 rounds were scheduled in interval of 1 week. Also, they do not update the result unless you ask and without replying to email they update the status on portal.