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 an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in May 2013
Interview
I was referred by an internal employee and flown to Seattle. I conducted 1-1 whiteboarding exercises with two full-time software development engineers. By the time of the second 1-1 it was clear to me and the interviewer that my interests did not align with the available positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would I speed up the boot time for Windows to make users less frustrated.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
Was given a phone interview that was mainly behavioral based, but was also asked some simple programming questions just to get a general idea of what I know. My recruiter got back to me saying that I would be getting an on-site interview. Was put on a random team for an interview, and was given four interviews over the course of four hours.
First it is the online test about your choices in some situations. Then it is the HR interview to know the basic information about you. Next will be the project interview.