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 through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
3 interviews of 70 minutes each, 1 design and project presentation with manager and 2 technical leetcode interviews with one question each.
supposed to be 30 min break between each interview (i got less time and one of me interviews was almost 2 hours)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
to return the minimum number of characters (from a-z) deletion from a string, so that will not be a letter that the number it appears is equal to another letter's appearence number.
example - aabb -> 1 deletion so will have abb or aab
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
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
implement a dictionary where you have set,get and setAll, all in O(1)