Microsoft
- 20
- questions
- 5
- stages
How the process runsFirm careers page, read Nov 7, 2026
- 1ApplicationTypicalUndergraduate corp dev seats are rare. Many students enter through finance rotation programs or after banking.
- 2Phone screenTypicalA recruiter call on your background and why this company.
- 3First roundStated by MicrosoftA virtual interview day of one on one conversations with employees.
- 4Final roundStated by MicrosoftCandidates selected after the first day have a second, final interview.
- 5OfferTypicalUsually within days of the final round.
Timing between stages shows on each program page once students report it. Firms change formats by year and office; the firm's own invite is the final word.
What it tends to weighStated, then typical
From Microsoft's careers site: Microsoft weighs knowledge of your field, critical thinking, problem solving, and ability to learn; prepare for behavioral and technical questions. Source
- Build, buy, or partner: buying is only one way to get a capability.
- Product and technology judgment: what a target does that the company cannot build fast enough.
- Working with the business units that own the plan after the deal closes.
- behavioral
- 4 questions
- markets
- 4 questions
- modeling
- 4 questions
- technicals
- 8 questions
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