Program Manager 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 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Program Manager roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 55 days.
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I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Apr 2007
Interview
Very well organized, clear communication chain throughout the interview cycle and interviewers, good prep on who I'd be seeing that day, very professional but tough interviewers. Spoke to about 8 people (turns out I was interviewing for 2 roles in 2 different groups) so there was some mutual confusion.
I was interviewing for a Program Manager role and was surprised by the variety of questioning. I got some programming questions, some design questions, but very very few project management/leadership questions which was a bit odd.
Everyone seemed quite smart (though a bit of arrogance in quite a few people) and engaged in the interview process which is very different than Google where several people on the loop appeared annoyed that they had to conduct an interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
(Interviewer goes to whiteboard and draws a simple shape that looks like a shark fin, turns to me an commands) Design this!