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 through a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Feb 2021
Interview
First I did an HR review with american interviewer, after that 3 technical interviews which were data structure questions,....
The process take to much time almost two months and in the end have many candidates and they choose one from us.
And it's unsane how much the Interview Process long.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First Technical Interview:
Implement strtok function, and expand by asking some thing connect to multithreading.
Second Technical Interview:
Data Structure of Cache's (vector of Caches) and each cache divided for segments, and give me API to use that accept one segment and revalidate it.
after the implemantation ask to much question about Threads(mutex for each cache/ mutex for each segment ) and using timestamp....
Third Interview:
1) Describe a game, a matrix(nXn) with 0,1 values and in each iteration in the game accept number 0/1 and put it in down left cell and the other cells rotates.(up righ cell get out of the matrix). ask me to implement data structure for the game. (Solution: using queues for each row, and you have to arrive for a trick about the columns).
2) give me file interface with read function in each call return one row from the file, and must implement:
a- function prints first N rows.
b- function prints last N rows.
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.