Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
Personality test: 29%
IQ intelligence test: 14%
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1 Hackerrank + 2 interview rounds (background +coding). Interacting with the interviewer is important. Help can be given as long as you discuss what you think with them. Try to focus on the role and align with you experience. They may ask small little things in your resume, and made you distract.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2025
Interview
It was great to get together all the feedback and realized I was just qualify to the position. The whole process takes about 20 days. I am at work right now
The initial screening was a 30 minute call with a recruiter. We discussed my resume, covered behavioral questions and evaluated the cultural fit. Then, the technical phone screen was a 60 minute call of two programming problems. They were DSA based, some Leetcode mediums.