Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 88% positive. To compare, the company-average is 66.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 34 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Intern according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 25%
Other: 17%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Contacted after I sent in a resume. Process was very quick (just couple days). Interview occurred about a week after initial email to set up the interview. At conclusion of our interview, they said a more technical interview should follow.
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Question 1
Largest project I've worked on, designing tech for children, and my process to solve a problem
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Oct 2014
Interview
Submitted resume at college career fair. I received an email requesting an on campus interview and signed up for a slot. The interview was routine with a technical question. He asked a lot of questions about my resume. He had me describe a project I had done in detail. Onsite was 4 hour-long interviews. Technical, behavioral, resume. Fun and positive vibe.
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Details of implementations of past projects.
Reverse the words in a sentence: "This is a sentence." becomes "sentence. a is This"
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2014
Interview
I had one phone screening interview that of 90 minutes length.
After the interview, the recruiter and scheduler contacted me to schedule the onsite interview.
Microsoft took care everything about hotel reservations, ticketing airplanes, airport pickup taxi and etc.
There were three technical interviews and one interview with hiring manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mostly string manipulation and array related questions. I got one tree related question that needed to be used with DFS traversals.