Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 2 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 20%
Personality test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Phone interview: 20%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2017
Interview
The process was very scatterbrained and poorly run. The group didn't have a clear leader and their criteria of what they were looking for in an engineer shifted with every interviewer. The interview included a really awkward development test sat in front of Visual Studio coding an example solution, but there were a variety of setup problems as well as an incomplete specification of the problem that made the process slow and overcomplicated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The racehorse problem: given 25 horses and no stopwatch, and you can only race 5 horses at the same time, how few races does it take to find the fastest horse?
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
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Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content