Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 2 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 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Oct 2017
Interview
1. Campus Online Coding Test
after 3 weeks shortlisted candidates were asked to coe to their office
2. first round there was Group fly at their office (it was a pool drive), 3 coding questions on-paper
3. shortlisted candidates had Three Technical Face to Face Interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the technical Interviews, first of all they'll ask you about your projects, then pure Object Oriented Programming questions of describing and writing code for designing a data structure or a class were asked.
Also Data structures and Algorithm complexities were asked.
Dynamic programming coding problems were also asked.
Some candidates were also asked OS questions and some famous puzzles.
It was the third step of the internship hiring process.
Video interview, 8 questions - 30 seconds to prepare the answer and 2.30 minutes to answereach question . The interview was entirely online, the question appeared on the computer so I didn't get the chance to speak with anyone from their HR department.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2017
Interview
Applied online, took two online tests, then took a pre-recorded interview, then got invited for an interview with the recruiter, invitation to assessment centre, spoke to hiring manager and had to make a short essay (1 page).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of questions about my opinion of Microsoft and my enthousiasm for tech. Also lots of questions focussed on soft-skills.