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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 71.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Atenas, , Ática) in Mar 2016
Interview
An email was sent to me inviting me for a skype interview. I was called and at first I was asked for what I was applying for. When I am going to graduate and if I want an internship or full-time. If I want an internship I had to stay at university for the duration of the internship.
The duration was 1 hour and it wasn't very hard to speak with the interviewer, keeping in mind my mother tongue is not English.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between processes and threads?
What are my favorite programming languages?
After telling them C and C++, I was asked what were the differences?
Why I want to work for Microsoft?
Puzzle Question: I have 9 stones that all look the same. One is heavier though. I have an old school scale and with only 2 scaling I have to find which one is the heavier.
Had a call with HR then an on site assessment center with a group case study and several interviews with managers. group case study was very short we had 30mn preparation and 10mn presentation with managers listening to us during the whole exercise. Then interviews went very well managers were very nice and interested by our personality and background.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2016
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter through Linkedin. Applied through Microsoft webpage and also sent my cv to the recruiter (it was requested by him). Got a phone interview about 2 weeks later, they did not ask any personal questions, only about my previous experience and projects. Seemed to be really interested in my bachelor project, she made a lot of questions about it. Then a brain teaser which I failed, she did not seem to care too much, just explained the answer to me. Then she allowed me to ask her questions and she answered them in detail. Really nice, pleasant interview. She told me they will contact me in 3 weeks.