By: Ginny Cheng This is a common inquiry from students. Keep in mind we utilize several options to accommodate the needs of students and I would say some of the steps are quite similar for industry as well. First Screens: Phone screens, Live Meetings and school campus face-to-face interviews
A face-to-face first interview takes more planning on Microsoft’s side and depends on the school’s interview schedule and room capacity. For some schools, there are designated interview periods that often correspond with a resume drop from your career center and do have firm deadlines. Depending on the pool size, we can have several sets of school campus interviews in the fall and then have a few more in the spring that incorporate more internship candidates.
Phone screens are definitely more flexible. Usually we include those that might’ve missed the resume drop deadlines or run out of slots on their school campuses. Also,
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Live Meetings are usually conducted along with a phone screen to enhance the interview experience. This method is utilized most often for cases where we may ask technical coding or design questions.
So, is it better to get a face-to-face than a phone interview? Arguments can be made that interviewing in person allows you to read the body language and facial expressions of an interviewer. However, given both types are usually only about 30 minutes and we focus on similar probing questions, candidates should be able to demonstrate their knowledge in either method effectively.
In case some of you have received interview questions via email in the past (aka e-screens), you should know we are no longer using this method for the college audience. Industry candidates may still receive e-screens before they are followed up with for an initial phone interview. Second Screens: Microsoft campus interviews, special event based interviews (aka on or offsite interview events)
It’s not common for Microsoft to conduct final interviews over the phone, especially for college candidates. We tend to fly them back to the specific Microsoft campus where their position will be located for a full day interview. Estimated time commitment including travel could be as little as 2-3 days depending on where they are flying from.
Sometimes, product groups like to conduct large hiring sessions specifically for their technology. These events may occur at the Microsoft campuses as “onsites” or in nearby regional school campuses known as “offsites” (I recently conducted one during an upstate NY school offsite for the Mobile Communications & Mac Business Group where we ended up offering 31 candidates from the 44 candidates interviewed and over 27 have accepted so far – 10 did it on the day they received the offer,
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Interviewing for the right candidates is not always an exact science, so it’s possible that the interview result indicated you should be routed to a different team or even a different role. Often, if we’re able to schedule something quickly for the following day,
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*One caveat about this particular blog entry is that while these are the more common ways we conduct our interviews, our process may alter or change based on business needs. Please always double check with the recruiter regarding your scheduled interviews. And of course, good luck,
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