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 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.5% 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 550 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 550 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 30%
Presentation: 20%
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 college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Kānpur, Uttar Pradesh) in May 2024
Interview
First casual introduction and then 2-3 standard dsa questions. Mostly they give one questions and will let you to optimize it in time complexity until you reach the best from topic like graph , linked list or maybe dynamic programming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked list traversal and half reversing , full reversing using recursion etc
Pretty straight forward, tree rounds. the first one and the second one were coding interviews (Leetcode medium). the third round was more behavioral, but also had some coding problems. in the first 2 rounds, were pretty much just tehnical problems.
Only technical questions from problems (for example, in the first problem they asked me to explain what a linked list, a binary search tree, inorder traversal, etc. are), behavioral questions, questions about my CV and personal projects, and questions from OOP and DSA.
They asked DSA medium and easy leetcode questions with a deep dive on resume projects.Also HR questions. 2 rounds each of 45 min for interview. This was on campus.We were also asked questions from computer fundaments like database management and OPPS.