Why do you want to work at Microsoft?

"Recruiter screen was really smooth and my recruiter was super helpful, went by very quick. I'm doing my final round tomorrow but the process took about two months."

"Very easy interview. quick 30 minutes personable. Gave lots of information about what to expect next steps. We took more like 25 minutes."

"The screen was normal behavioral questions with the only technical one being how would I improve a product of my choosing."

"The interviewer seemed to be uninterested. It felt like there was no way he would pass me. I should have asked the recruiter properly about what they are expecting."

"Overall positive experience – people very friendly and sharp. Mostly behavioral interviews, with deep dive on prior work. There was 1+ week of silence after final round. Think it was because the recruiter got reassigned."

"I went through a pretty long Microsoft process for an SDE II role compared with other companies. It started with a HackerRank, then a one-hour recruiter screen that was very focused on motivation and culture fit, and then a loop of three back-to-back interviews on coding, system design, and low-level design. What stood out to me was how vague several prompts were, because I had to keep asking questions to uncover the requirements instead of just jumping into a textbook answer. In the coding round, they seemed to care more about how I reasoned through the binary tree problem than whether I used the exact BFS or DFS terminology. Overall, it felt about the same difficulty as Google or Amazon, but a little more focused on logical thinking and culture."

"It was overall good. Except I was nervous in one of the interviews. But overall I really loved it. Just be very calm."

"It was good! It was straight forward. Interviewers were very nice and the final round was 3 interviews"