Microsoft Software Developer - Internship interview questions
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Software Developer - 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.
Candidates applying for Software Developer - Internship roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 46 days.
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On-campus interview. The interviewer was pretty friendly and was approachable. It was about 10 minutes asking about general experience, the position I am applying for, and the resume. Then it was about 13-15 minutes of writing code on the whiteboard about data structure and algorithm. Overall, it was a moderately hard interview, and the interviewer helped walk through the process.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
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The hiring process starts with an initial phone interview or on-campus interview which could be either behavioral(mostly phone interview) or coding(on campus) interview. If you qualify the first round, the next few rounds will be onsite at their Redmond campus. It will be a series of 4 interviews with different teams in the same domain eg. cloud and enterprise - SQL server, Azure storage, etc
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2017
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Applied through a career event in our university. A week after got an email for on-campus interview. Interviewer seem to be not happy to being there. There was an easy linked list question which I solved and a few straightforward behavioral questions. No resume related talk. Interview wasn't selective at all. I'm not sure how they filter down depending on these questions. I would expect more sensible and challenging interview from Microsoft. After 4-5 days from the interview, they emailed generic rejection.