Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 66% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 38 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer according to 38 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 26%
Phone interview: 18%
Presentation: 14%
Skills test: 12%
Drug test: 7%
Personality test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in July 2019
Interview
I applied online in 2017 in Berlin. I was requested to make an account, to attach a resume an to answer to a lot of questions. This whole step took something like 3 hours. After applying all I got was radio silence. I have connected with a recruiter on LinkedIn and asked her if she could help me. Radio silence.
Two year later a recruiter from Poland contacted me pretending that I spoke to here a while back. It was a false statement but I chose to see what she wants. She had an open position in Prague. I had a phone interview with here and she failed to answer my questions.
I got a offline coding test. I was in a business trip, and I could not complete it within a week. No deadline was specified initially , tough later that week I started to get notifications that I had 3 days left to finish the code.
This whole thing seemed to me a lack of respect for me, so I spammed them.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Melbourne)
Interview
After submitting an online application, I received a HackerRank assessment after passing the resume screening stage, then I was rejected after completing the assessment and did not proceed to further interview rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The assessment consisted of two LeetCode-medium-level coding questions to be completed within 75 minutes.
45 mins technical interview with a member of their San fran team. Very relaxed and informal but questions were focused and lots of follow ups. Easy to schedule as was over video conferencing platform
Straightforward technical loop overall, with strong interviewers at every stage. I genuinely enjoyed the in-depth conversations around technical challenges and algorithmic problem-solving — the entire process felt well-structured and genuinely engaging.