SWE applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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There are 2 stages to the interview process.
1) First stage is one coding interview
2) Second stage has 3 interviews that last 5 hours in a single day.
After the interviews are complete it took two months to receive an answer.
overall good process. There was a total of 4 interviews for final round. I enjoyed the whole thing. there was an OO question, and some leetcode questions. Each one talked about my resume and my past experiences.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hanover, NH) in Sep 2021
Interview
round 1: behavioral interview by phone by a recruiter (non-technical; but some people get technical questions)
round 2/3: technical round; it was two one-on-one back-to-back interviews on the same day by 2 software engineers on the same team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
some behavioral questions of certain scenarios with team and deadlines and how you would act in those situations