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 a recruiter. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
After a phone screen I was invited to participate in an on-site interview for a summer internship. The process was a full day event 9am-5pm, and I actually ended up missing my return flight home from Redmond. I went through 4 interviews, where 1 was combined with a lunch interview. At the end I met with the hiring manager, where I made a silly mistake on a whiteboard problem because I was so exhausted. I found out 3 days later that I did not make the cut for the internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Stuff you can easily google about ASCII, which is lame that you have to have that sort of trivia memorized
The process took a very long time and strange questions were asked, such as how many lines of code have you written in X which isn't a good metric for skill or experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How many lines of code have you written in language X
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Phila, PA) in Nov 2016
Interview
It was quite a comfortable process. Had one phone interview wherein I had a screenshare, one could choose the language in which they want to code then was called onsite to interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Convert a string to int without using inbuilt libraries.