SWE Intern 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern 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.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a SWE Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 25%
Other: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Personality test: 25%
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Screening phone call with technical recruiter. Then a couple weeks later an email saying I passed the screen. Then an email to schedule 2nd round coding interviews. Given up to 3 weeks to prepare.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Focused on projects listed on resume, tell me about a time you've worked in a group, explain a particular technical concept to a child, what technologies do you like best, what are your two strongest languages. Coding was array-based
There was a thirty five minute phone call with a casual tone and getting to know you, then there were coding problems and you had to solve them live in front of hiring team to see your problem-solving abilities and logical thinking.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2020
Interview
Final Round:
I had a very difficult interviewer (I don't think most will be like mine)
Had an interview with a recruiter first, then went to final rounds where I had two rounds of behavioral and coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Final Round:
I had a very difficult interviewer (I don't think most will be like mine)
Two questions -
1. backtracking, bit manipulation question - permutations of a word
2. word/string manipulation to reverse