Data Science applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 70.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Data Science according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 100%
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1 phone + 1 final. Took about 1 month in between. Final had 4 rounds all very short. Interviewers super nice and really enjoyed the rounds. Looks to be team specific
Started with 1 round of behavioral and preliminary questions about basic ML and Data Science.
After that, I got an invitation for a full-day interview (4 rounds of more in-depth questions in the areas of algorithms, machine learning, and system design)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer asked about how I approach designing a system for Bing image search.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2021
Interview
Interview for an internship position. The interview lasts for 1 hour. The interviewer presents a dataset in .csv format and ask about feature engineering and model selection process. Which feature to select? How to build the feature? What time interval to use?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When do you choose to use neural network versus SVM?