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:
Phone interview: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
IQ intelligence test: 20%
Background check: 20%
Personality test: 20%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Jan 2019
Interview
Very proffesional, introduction went smoothly, then I had a small talk with the interviewer about his favourite golf club. He gather information regarding my past work experience and my skills. Asked me questions regarding where I should stand with the company.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What do you know about the position and our company?
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.
Interview questions [1]
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