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Microsoft interview process

New-grad software engineer · 4 rounds, in the order Microsoft's process runs them. The company's own careers pages describe these rounds.

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The rounds

Online test · 90 min · 2 questions
Microsoft — Online Assessment
The online coding assessment.
Microsoft — Online Assessment: pattern, syllabus and a free mock
Coding · Written
Initial Interview
Behavioural and technical questions; you may write code.
Coding · Written
Final Interview Loop
One-to-one interviews of data-structures coding, with behavioural questions throughout.
Managerial · Written
As Appropriate Interview
A senior interviewer, held only when the earlier rounds go well.

Where this comes from

From the company

Microsoft's student page describes an initial interview and, if selected, a final interview of one-to-ones asking both behavioural and technical questions. InterviewBit says three or four of the final interviews involve coding and that the As Appropriate interview happens only when the first rounds go well; round counts differ between sources.

Practise for Microsoft

How a run works

Rounds open in order: each one once the round before it is sat. No cut-off is applied — no company publishes one — so the scores sit side by side at the end.
The online test is the company's placement test pattern, proctored like any sitting. A sitting started before the round opened is not counted.
Each interview round is a mock interview with the AI interviewer, briefed on the company and the round. It counts toward your weekly interview allowance like any other, and its answers feed your skill profile and readiness.
Technical and coding rounds are written, with the editor. The HR and managerial rounds are held the way you chose when you started: written, or spoken for 10 minutes.

Microsoft Interview Process: 4 Rounds Explained

The Microsoft interview process, round by round: Microsoft — Online Assessment → Initial Interview → Final Interview Loop → As Appropriate Interview.

Company: Microsoft

Role: new-grad software engineer

Rounds: 4

How firm: From the company

The Microsoft interview process for a new-grad software engineer has 4 rounds, in this order: Microsoft — Online Assessment, Initial Interview, Final Interview Loop, As Appropriate Interview.

The rounds

Microsoft — Online Assessment
Online test. The online coding assessment.
Microsoft — Online Assessment: pattern, syllabus and a free mock
Initial Interview
Coding. Behavioural and technical questions; you may write code.
Final Interview Loop
Coding. One-to-one interviews of data-structures coding, with behavioural questions throughout.
As Appropriate Interview
Managerial. A senior interviewer, held only when the earlier rounds go well.

Where this comes from

From the company. The company's own careers pages describe these rounds.

Signed in, you can sit the whole process as one simulation: the online test, then each interview with the AI interviewer, in order. Not affiliated with Microsoft.