Senior Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Developer roles take an average of 56 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 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Senior Developer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lagos) in Nov 2020
Interview
Online Assessment as a prequalification for onsite interview. The recuriter sent a codility link to me which has 3 questions for 2.5 hours. Questions in Long distance problem, sum of sub-array
Normal interview with a few technical questions. Nothing out the ordinary, if you've done these before you will be fine. Some of them were quite hard and I couldn't answer all of them.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2020
Interview
This was part of hiring event. Recruiter reached out on Linkedin. Recruiter asked technical questions as part of phone screen. Onsite interview was straight 4 rounds and it was very hectic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Virus spreader
a. Tell me about yourself
b. Instance of obstacle you solved
2. Longest increasing sequence list
a. Tell me about yourself
b. Situation of a project you improved
3. Design linked list,middle of linked list, discussed efficiency of linked list
a. Solution of colleague approved, what would you do?
4. A:352 b:4 max element you can form
a. Tell me about yourself