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%
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I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2011
Interview
The interview was pretty much nailed the exact amount of design vs coding questions - I had 2 phone interviews and then 4 on-site ones. Over the phone I was asked mainly design questions and questions about me. On-site each of the 4 interviews was combined design vs coding vs test interview and I do realized that they tested me in that way for which job I am most valuable and finally they decided that I have very strong analytical skills which will help product management, dev and test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Please don't try to expect the questions - just be prepared from technical perspective and try to keep your answers structured so that you don't loose your time during the interview. Best is giving short meaningful answers - short enough to explain as much as you can about yourself or about the decisions, solutions you can take about the tasks they gave you.