Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 51 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Microsoft overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Microsoft as a Software Engineer New Grad according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
One on one interview: 36%
Drug test: 18%
Presentation: 9%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
First-round phone screening, HR Phone interview, 30 minutes, ask questions about your experience, behavior questions, your preferred programming languages, no coding required. At last, I asked 2 questions, then the interview ended.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2025
Interview
Three rounds - Includes Behavioral, Technical and a Bar Raiser Round.
Asked questions from my resume started with basic system designing and explored my knowledge in system design using microservices architecture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Distributed Systems LLD Designing. Programming question random
Started with phone screening it went well then headed to a full loop of 3 rounds. Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Past college project and a technical challenge I faced.
Round 1 - LRU cache, Round 2- I don't remeber clearly but it was not that hard, leetcode medium, Round 3- easy binary sorting problem.
Firstly Phone Interview * 1
Then on-site interview *3
Finally interview with Team Lead
Each interview has live coding problems included
Merely no behavior questions
all in Chinese, but one interviewer requested an english introduction
The interview process went very quickly
Interviewers were nice and polite